CO129-556-15 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese property 22-6-1936 - 22-12-1936 — Page 29

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

10th November, 1936.

With reference to previous correspondence ending

with your telegram No.104 of the 9th July last I have the

honour to forward for your information a copy of a letter, with its enclosure, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul- General at Canton, dated the 21st October, and of my reply thereto, dated the 9th November, 1936.

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Dr. Philip K.C. Tyau (already well known to me as late Chinese Consul-General in Singapore) was one of the officials who took part in the recent visit, which is being reported by me in a separate despatch, of His Excellency the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government and His Honour the Mayor of Canton on the 4th and 5th November, and I therefore delayed my reply in case Dr. Tyau should see fit to supplement his letter by verbal representations.

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Canton newspapers had foreshadowed such a possibility, but in the event Dr, Tyau never even mentioned the matter to me at any time during the visit.

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He did, however, mention it to the acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. W.J. Carrie, and put forward unofficially the movel suggestion that the whole of Kowloon City should be made into a Public Park and the area, thus rendered free of any inhabitants, recognised by us as being under the sovereignty of China. If ever any such proposal is put forward officially by the Waichiaopu it must of course

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P. &c.,

&C.,

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