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eviction was carried out with police support on

the 5th January, 1948. In the course of the

eviction two individuals were arrested, and on

the 12th January they were sentenced for

obstruction to three months hard labour.

16.

On the 7th January, 1948, the Po On

magistrate visited Kowloon with other officials

including his health and political advisers, and

held a meeting at which he addressed a crowd

under the Chinese flag. This act was inter-

preted by a section of the Chinese press as a

reaffirmation of Chinese sovereignty.

17.

By 12th January, 1948, a number of squatter:

had returned to Kowloon and police action to

remove them met with resistance outside the City

from a crowd of about 100 persons. Warning

shots were fired, and tear gas used to disperse

the crowd. Four persons received minor injuries

one received a flesh wound and one received

serious wounds from which he has since died.

118. On the 6th January, 1948, the Chinese

Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs made a formal

protest to His Majesty's Ambassador, and on the

8th January left a memorandum with H.M. Embassy,

Nanking, requesting that the Chinese Government

representations be reviewed on humanitarian

grounds pending the receipt of a written protest

Various memoranda and notes have been handed by

the Chinese Government to H.M. Government and by

H.M. Government to the Chinese Government.

Attempts have been made to settle the issue by

finding some practical solution not involving

any decision as to jurisdiction over Kowloon.

The latest of these was a proposal that the City

should be converted into a Garden of Remembrance

which should be placed under the care of a board

of/