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(Copy) Governor General Li to Mr. Parkes
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Communication by His Excellency the Governor General of the Two Kwang, in reply to Harry S. Parkes, Esquire, C. B., British Commissioner for the Government of Canton
On the 20th of March I received the honorable Commissioner's letter, to the effect that the tongue of land known as Sha Tsoy, which forms part of the township of How Loow, in the District of Sun-on, and consists of barren hills, is in close proximity, at its Southern extremity, to Hongkong; and has been made a place of resort by bad characters,