CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937 — Page 99

TRANSLATION.

A.L.S.

Enclosure No.1.

NOTE.

Sir,

From

Wai Chiao Pu

ΤΟ

H.M. Ambassador, NANKING.

26th October, 1936.

he endl

I have the honour to inform Your Excellency with

reference to the enforced removal by the Hong Kong Government

of the residents of Kowloon City that I have received a report

from the Special Delegate for Kwangtung and Kwangsi to the

following effect:-

Al ho 206

(hanting

Tow) 6(7)on 136 file.

"According to an oral statement made at this

office by representatives of the residents of

Kowloon city the District Office, Southern District,

Hong Kong, has altered the place to which they have

to remove to Ya Ch'ien Wei and has fixed the end of

the present year as the date before which all the

residents must remove, and they accordingly request that the matter be taken up with the appropriate

authorities".

In this connection I have the honour to refer to

Sir Alexander Cadogan's Note of 5th August, 1935, communicating the contents of the reply received by him from the Hong Kong

Government. On receipt of that Note my predecessor referred

the matter to the Special Delegate stationed in Canton and the

foregoing report has now been received.

I have the honour to observe that it is evident

that the residents in question are not yet willing to accept

removal within a definite time limit, and that as Kou-Shin-Ling