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THE CHINA MAIL.

Kowloon Leased Territory

Retrocession Request Disquiets London

EARLY TREATIES RECALLED

By H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.

CONSIGNEES.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO”, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

The Steamship

"BENVANNOCH”

Consignees of cargo are hereby in- formed that all goods are being land- ed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hasardons Godowns of The Kang & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd. whenes and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained

A Hong Kong cable printed in the Chinese Delegation suggested | No claims will be admitted after the Times early in April to the that "while there may be a neces- the Goods have left the Godowns, and jeffect that representations had sity to provide for the protection the 19th June, 1983, will be subject

all Gooda

remaining undelivered after been made regarding the retroces-of Hong Kong Harbour in the into rent sion of the Kowloon Leased Terri-terests of such trade, the reten-| All claims against the steamer must tory caused considerable perturbation of Kowloon may not neces-be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd July, 1933, or they tion in London, and has since re-sarily be, in the view of the Chin will not be recognised. sulted in several questions being ese Delegation, the sole solution] All broken, chafed, and damaged addressed to the Secretary of State of this problem." He therefore Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the Goddard & Douglas 17th Jane

1933, at 10 a. by Messrs. To comply with the General Bond- ed Warehouse Regulations consignees must

a Revenue Offour in at- tendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.

for Foreign Affairs in the House reserved on China's behalf, the of Commons. Sir John Simon, right to make further observations replying to Mr. Nunn, in the first on the question of the Leased Ter- week of April, stated that no such ritories. report had been received at the Foreign Office, and the Foreign

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An International' Asset. Office Representative gave a simi- Ear Balfour claimed, at Wash- lar reply to another question at alington, that Hong Kong was easie later date.

ly first among the ports of the ad by

No Fire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign-

It may be recalled that the Is-world, exceeding in this respect GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. land of Hong Kong, eleven miles Hamburg before the war, Antwerp

Agents.

in length and two to five miles in and New York. If it does not Hong Kong, 12th June, 1983. breadth, was ceded to Great Eri-hold that pre-eminent position to- tain under the Treaty of Nanking, day it still ranks very high among

in January, 1841. It was then but the great world ports, and must THE EAST ASIATIC CO. LTD., sparsely inhabited by fishermen. be regarded as an asset of the ut The Charter of the Colony, bears most importance not only to the

COPENHAGEN. the date April 5, 1843. Under the British Empire, but to all nations Peking Convention of 1860 Stone-trading with the Far East. The Danish Motor Vessel cutter's Island and the Kowloon Though a fortified port, it is not,

"SELANDIA" Peninsula were ceded to the Bri- according to modern standards, having arrived from Grays Harber, tish Crown, and by a further Con-heavily fortified, and under Article Vancouver, Los-Angeles and San Fran- vention, signed in Peking, in June, XIX of the Washington Treaty for cisco consignees of cargo are hereby 1898, the area known as the New the Limitation of Naval Armament landed and placed at their risk into the informed that all goods are being Territories, including Mirs Bay, Great Britain undertook to main-hazardous Deep Bay, and Lamma, Lautau and tain the status quo in regard to loon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., where and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kow- other adjacent islands was leased the, Hong Kong fortifications. to Great Britain for 99 years. The Under this self-denying ordin- total area of the New Territories fance (which applied also to cer- No claims will be admitted after the and Islands is about 345 square tain insular possessions of Ameri-goods have left the Godowns and all miles.

ca and Japan) it was stipulated the 18th June, 1933, at 4 p.m. will be Foods remaining undelivered after

delivery can be obtained as soon as

goods are landed.

same year) was to remain under specified; that no measures shall Messrs. Anderson

where they will be examined by

Under the 1898 Convention the that "no new fortifications or subject to rent, City of Kowloon (like that of Wei-naval bases shall be established in All broken, chafed and damaged hai-wel in the Convention of the the territories and possessions goods are to be left in the Godown, Chinese jurisdiction insofar as the be taken to increase the existing 15th June, 1933, at 10 a.m.

& A be on the exercise of this privilege was not naval facilities for the repair and All claims against the vessel must inconsistent with the military remaintenance of, naval forces, and be presented to the Undersigned within quirements for the defence of that no increase shall be made in will not be recognised.

ten days of the ships arrival, or they Hong Kong. It was arranged that the coast defences of the terri- No Fire Insurance will be effected, the British Flag should be hoist-itories and

possessions above Bill of Lading will be countersign-| ed over the New Territories on specified. This restriction, how-ed by, April 17, 1899, but on the 15th ever, does not prelude such repair|

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD., there were serious disturbances infand

Agents. replacement of worn-out

Mercantile Bank Bldg. Hong Kong, 10th June, 1933,

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the area, which were only quell-weapons and equipment as is cus ed by British military and police tomary in, naval and military ca- with some loas of life, and on May tablishments in time of peace." 16, as a punishment for resist-i ance, Kowloon City was occupied,} and Chinese jurisdiction was pelled.

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A Defensive Necessity.

ex-

WHERE BRITAIN AND AMERICA DIFFER

(Continued from Page 6.)

No Grounds for Retrocession. Acceptance of this restriction makes it more than ever impera- tive that Hong Kong should not be exposed to artillery or other attack The Lease Convention made it

from the adjoining territories, and

Even in the culture of the two clear that the extension of Colonial for that reason alone, makes it es-

countries he would observe ele- the New Territories should not be the same prestige attaching to in- abandoned. How the report that

territory was required, mainly for/sential that British control overments of approximation. There is

purposes of defence. The Pre- amble read "Whereas it has for many years past been recognised view had been started, originated, dreadful confusion between know negotiations having this object la novation, the same gullible accept ance of the unfamiliar, the same that an extension of Hong Kong it is difficult to guess. But there ledge and learning, the same ab Territory is necessary for the pro-is, fortunately, but little likelihood sence of mental calm or elasticity, per defence and protection of the that any such negotiations will the same hectic educational impa-| Colony,"

materialise in the near future. tience.

A glance at the map will show The Government could not, if it

10th July that the Island would have become wished, ignore the views of the It will thus be a curious exper untenable if the Chinese had con- British Naval and Military autho-and that on arrival he is more Im- ience for the British traveller to tinued to hold the Northern shorer rities on this question. of the Lyeemun Pass, and Lantau, Hong Kong in the Headquarters of America and Germany than he la

And ap

pressed by the analogies between Stonecutter's, Lamms, Putol and the British China Station, and also Tanglung Islands. The increasing of the British China: Command, it struck by the differences between range of modern artillery made it is incredible that their respective a plane of comparison which he had America and England. Here was imperative for defensive purposes Commanders would concur in any to Include the neighbouring is-weakening of the already none-too- lands, and the hills commanding strong defences of the Harbour 8th July the harbour, within the Colonial and the Island. 7th Aug. administration.

not forseen.

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see any possible 20th June fatore the Leased Territory of Wei- grounds on which she could be ex-honest man he will confess that jing of America?" If he be an 24th June hai-wel, Mr. Balfour, as he then pected to go back on the policy there is no completa answer, at was, emphasized that the Kowloon she enunciated in 1921-2. If any present, to any such question. The Leased Territory stood upon an things events since that date, have America of this moment is in &T 2nd July entirely different footing from emphasized the necessity of the stage of potent transition. As Wel-hai-wel." He asserted that security of Hong Kong to British such she is an enormously signi- without it Hong Kong would be and other commercial interests in ficant unreality. 21st Jume

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