CO129-546-11 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese owned land 9-1-1934 - 28-12-1934 — Page 7

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is to

obtains the consent Concerned to the abandonment

the

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the

how occupy. This w

buldings thus

favoured to the E.e.

In paragraph 5 of (1) the Governor

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considered that the offer of gruesous

to the "Owners

may lead

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trew

terms

9 property within the city their voluntary unmoval to site. He thought, however, that

is the Chinese Government were primarily

with their rights under the

Conserved

Convention of 1898, it would be

a

mistake to attempt to induce the crowers" to remove voluntarily until the major question of the rights of the Chinese Government had bem disposed of.

The F.O. on

the other hand, conside

the

that it may be possible to avoid raising that major questions by effecting the voluntary removal of the owners of property by the offer of

Generous terins referred to in para 5961). They prefer that that possibility should be put to the test.

the

and

of inducing the

*

owners"

conveying ? Dispatch to the Governor ratessentiring Substance of paragraphs 2-4 of (3) asking him to consian the possibility

voluntarch to remove from Kowloon city by offering them the generous terms of compensations referred to in para 5 4(1), thuchy avoiding

with the Chinese Government

discussions

concerning the question of the right of Heli's Government to continue to Excise Jurisdiction within Kowloon Caly.

HeBader

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