CO129-556-15 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese property 22-6-1936 - 22-12-1936 — Page 19

In anv further communication

this subject, please quote

No.

F 7416/4434/10.

and address-

not to any person by name

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

IMMEDIATE.

53552

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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19

S.W.1.

4th December, 1936.

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Sir,

With reference to the telegram from His Majesty's

Embassy at Peking No.821 of the 10th November copy of which

was communicated to the Colonial Office in Foreign Office letter

2.

F 6870/4434/10 of the 13th November, I am directed by Mr.

Secretary Eden to transmit to be laid before the Secretary of

State, copies of four further telegrams on the subject of the

removal of inhabitants of Kowloon City to a different site.

As it would seem to be preferable at the present

stage to avoid any reference to the question of jurisdiction

or to the note to the Chinese Minister of 30th May, 1899,

Mr. Eden proposes, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary

of State for the Colonies, to approve the reply to the

Chinese Government proposed by Sir H. Knatchbull Hugessen in

paragraphs 2 to 5 of his telegram No.206 Tour of the 27th

November.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Tw. Inde