1. G. B. Endacott and A. Hinton, Fragrant Harbour.• A Short History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1962; reprint, Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 1977), p. 94; Sir Charles Collins, PublicAdministrationin Hong Kong (London and New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1952; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1975), pp. 141–42; Luke S. K. Wong, “Squatters in Pre-War Hong Kong,” Journal of Oriental Studies Vol. 8, No. 1(January 1970), pp. 203–04.
2. Chen Xin and Guo Zhikun, eds., Xianggang quanjilu (Illustrated Chronicle of Hong Kong), Vol. 1 (Hong Kong: Zhonghua shuju, 1997–1998), pp. 211, 214.
3. Ibid., pp. 211–12.
4. Ibid., p. 211.
5. Chan Lau Kit-ching, China, Britain and Hong Kong 1895–1945 (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1990), pp. 267–68.