CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937 — Page 70

Weihaiwei scarcely constitutes a parallel,

as His Majesty's Ambassador suggests, since

in fact the city under Chinese jurisdiction

was merely a small village in the middle of

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a rural area and presented no such problem

Wet & be that

in administration as that created - the-

commercial activ

otiviting of 4

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the crummetances

Hong Kong

Moreover it appears that even so

the fact that the "city"of Weihaiwei was before

the rendition under exclusively Chinese

control greatly increased the difficulties

in certain disschous

of the Colonial Government/

I am to refer

in this connection to the Commissioner's

confidential despatch of the 8th of December, 1929

regarding the attempt of the Kuomintang to obtain

ess-rcius

control over the schools of Weihaiwei.

A

the Foreign Offen

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copy of this despatch was sent to on the

20th of February, 1930.

(2)on 73159/30

Weihaiwei)

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undesrath

((3) on above file)

3. Mr.Ormsby Gore suggests that the matter

be discussed at an early date, if Mr. Eden

considers it desirable, with representatives

of this Department and of the War Office, and

with

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