CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937 — Page 39

the Sino-British Friendship Park and be administered by

a Committee incorporated by a Hong Kong Ordinance, and

the Kwangtung Provincial Government might be invited to

nominate a representative on the administrative Committee

of the park. While there would then be no question of

Chinese jurisdiction, he thought that this would go far

towards saving the Chinese "face".

Mr. Orde said that they would have to consider

the matter further at the Foreign Office, and that with

regard to the request from the Officer Administering the

Government of Hong Kong, that steps should be taken for

the eviction of the remaining householders within the

city, they would telegraph to His Majesty's Ambassador

in China to ask if he saw any objection. He himself

was of the opinion that the eviction might be completed

and need not be postponed for consideration of the larger

question of jurisdiction which would clearly take time

if the Foreign Office wished to pursue it.