CO129-552-8 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese property 2-1-1935 - 1-8-1935 — Page 14

JA VANTAN despatch to Peking No. 99 of

4th July, 1935

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TRAVELA ION:

sir,

FROM: Special delegate for Foreign Affairs

TO:

H. X. Consul-Gena:el, Canton.

29th June, 1958.

I have the honour to refer to the Hong Kong Govern-

ment's orders to the residents of Kowloon City to move out

and to my letter of 88th June 1955, which was based on the

--ng lo-Chinese “reaty for the Development of the Territory

of Hong Kon concluded on 9th June 1898, woerein it

provided that Kowloon City shall remain under Chinese juria

diction and in which I asked that the Hong Kong Government may

be requested to cancel its original proposal ordering the

remɔval of the Kowloon City residents, as is on record.

I have the honour to inform you that certain

residents of Kowloon City have appeared personslly at my

office and made the following statementi ---

"Owing to the fact that six of the new houses built at Kau Shut Ling have been completed the, is trist Officer, Southern District, has notified Ng Cheong and five others to remove (to the new houses) within one week and that dissention will not be permitted. be whole body of the remaining residents will also have to move out when all the new buildings are completed. In addition, all the residents have, in the course of a month, been awazoned by the District Office, southern District, for quiries several times. this obstructs their work and affects their livelihood.

It is recalled that in the proclametion issued in the previous year by the District ifice, Southern District, only two courses of action were open for selection. The first was that new houses would be built (for the Kowloon City residents) at Kau Shut Ling free of charge. The other was the payment of compensation for their houses in accordance with the notification of June 10th in the year before last wherein the values of the houses were assessed.

A portion of the residents of the city,

terrified