have agreed to accept Conditionally the limits suggested in the memo
*
um of the Colonial
-lau sim
Defence Committee
3. With good
I am
to art that Sir Claude
Mordmald may be
instructed by telegraph
h assure guousment that as
me the Chinese ministas
Wha
from as the territory it is proposed to lease
has been handed over to the control
3
the
Hong Kong gaveen neut
that granment will take all possit... precautions to prevent
C
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by telegraph
ara
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as far as it possibly. Can the based Feniton
being word to facilitate Smuggling into China or in any other way to the inj
detriment
of Chinese interests. The Gamer will recognize that it may be difficult
tologanise
at once
adequate police meashes,
Int the colonial authori-
be
ties will fre definitely
be
instructed to use
thei
beitendraurous to that
end
4. I am further to ack
that the Sir Claude Maidonald may
be
instructed if it is not too late, to try