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Secretary of State:

Your Reference.

For Mr. Watson's signature

J. SPICER, ESQ.,

(Sir Stafford Cripps'

Private Secretary)

accpg. draft

FURTHER ACTION.

Copy with copy enclosure

to Mr. Kinna.

zent 20

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Dear Spicer,

With reference to your letter to Kinna

of the 14th January and its enclosure, of which

you sent me a copy, I enclose a note which has

been prepared by the Department on the subject

of the eviction of squatters from the area

known as the "Walled City of Kowloon" in the

Colony of Hong Kong.

My Secretary of State hopes that if

Sir Stafford Cripps finds it necessary to send

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a reply to his Chinese friend, he will feel

able to say that from the enquiries which he

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has made, he is quite satisfied as to the

justification for the eviction of these

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squatters, and that the Hong Kong Government

acted throughout in a reasonable and proper

manner.

It is unfortuna's ther

The facts suggest that this affair

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has been worked up and grossly exaggerated

for political reasons, and there is no doubt

can asemel go that

that the Governor of Hong Kong, who has been

kept fully informed of the representations

which have been made by the Chinese Government

in this matter, both in Nanking and in London,

and is aware of the repercussions in China, can custacely be wheed upon to

give the fullest consideration to these

factors.

I am