CO129-544-14 Proposed public park in Kowloon- question of Chinese jurisdiction in city area 9-8-1933 - 9-8-1933 — Page 14

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Governor of Hong kong reported that the off icer in com-

mand of the troops at Taipohu had found posted on the op-

posite hill a large Chine se face, which had fired at

the British troops. Further attacks were made on the

17th and 18th. On the 18th the Governor of Hongkong

reported that the Viceroy of Canton had refused to reply

to a request which he had sent to him via His Majesty's

Consul at that port that the Chire se officials and troops

should be removed from the territory leased to Great Britain.

The Governor further stated that a force of 600 Chine se

troops had been sent into Kowloon City, where they were

not required, the need for protection being on the nor-

thern frontier. His Majesty's Charge d'Affairs was there-

upon instructed to urge the Tsungli Yamen to send strin-

gent orders to the Viceroy for the removal of the troops

and to impress on them that the results of neglect to ob-

serve the stipulations of the Conven tion would be serious.

These instructions His Majesty's Chargé carried out an

the 20th. April at an interview with the Yamen. In con-

sequence of further reports from the Governor of Hongkong,

His Majesty's Chargé was instructed to inform the Yamen

that His Majesty's Government had been most painfully im-

pressed with the recent occurrences at Kowloon and the

resistance which had been made to the execution of the

provisions of the Convention, that His Majesty's Govern

ment were convinced that the pepeated attacks made on the

British forces by Chinese troops in uniform could not have

occurred without effective concurrence on the part of

the Chinese local authorities, and that this view was

confirmed by the refusal of the Viceroy of Canton to re-

move his troops from the territory leased to Great Britain,

and by the capture of Chinese military flags. On the 29th

side interview April His Majesty's Chargé communicated the above to the

with Yamen of

29/4/1899. Yamen am added that "His Majesty's Government would be

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