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to enter into unnecessary, the reason for any discussion on this part of the subject, and especially inappropriate to run the risk of creating doubles in the mind.
Shineve raise questions of international Law and technical rights to limits of territorial jurisdiction not otherwise likely to arise. In this I agree with Sir Edmund Hornby, and I am glad to find the necessity no longer exists for any additional Convention.
As regards the possibility you suggest of the Kamma Island being ceded at some period to a foreign Power, you perhaps still think steps should be taken to prevent by anticipation such a contingency. My knowledge of the strong indisposition that exists in the Tsungli Yamen, or Board of Foreign Affairs, presided over by the Prince of Kung, to entertain any proposition for the alienation of Chinese territory, convinces me of the utter hopelessness of any attempt to obtain by negotiation the cession of most barien rock in Chinese Seas. If any evidence...