N. CONFIDENTIAL.
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Peiping(No.3.) Canton (No.3). Nanking.
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
9th January, 1934.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
13832/33. of your Confidential despatch of 15th September, 1933,
regarding Kowloon City.
to Admny
W.O
Copy w/o eind.
Dup: Desp: &plans to 5.0.
аргий
I enclose two plans, that on the larger scale
shewing the "city" itself and buildings within its walls,
and that on the smaller scale shewing the "city" in
relation to the town-plan of the area. Of the buildings
within the city the large blocks numbered 6620, 7334, 7335,
7336 and 6625 formed, with the ruins to the eastward, the
official seat of the Chinese Government which held sway
over the district at the time of its lease to His Majesty's
Government. They were held on short term lease expiring
31st December, 1933, the first four by the Church
Missionary Society which uses them as a school and
orphanage, and the last, No.6625, by the Secretary for
Chinese Affairs who uses it for a free school supported
by funds from a neighbouring temple. The buildings are
kept in good order and repair by the lessees and it is
proposed to renew their leases. The other numbered lots
are domestic buildings mostly in very bad repair and held
on similar terms by various Chinese whose main source of
livelihood is pig-rearing conducted in even more
dilapidated and insanitary sties, some of which are
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&c.,
&c.
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