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murder in the Courts at Hong Kong. He demurred at this declaring in such a case that they would be tried in China; that if the Customs were to be moved the Convention was at an end; that the boundary question was not yet settled as he had not, and other, signed the delimitation, arguments. I pointed out to His Excellency that the provisional boundary had been settled by two officers regularly accredited and gazetted in Hong Kong and Canton and was therefore in accordance with the Convention, and that if timely measures are not taken by him for the protection of that frontier China must suffer serious loss of revenue by smuggling.
His Excellency then said it is not in the Convention, I cannot remove them. I answered. It is not necessary for Your Excellency to remove them. Sir Robert Hart will arrange for their removal, or the Imperial British Government will have to do it. "Hart," he said, hotly, "what thing is he (Shemmo tung hsi) that you should mention him."
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I said I assumed that he was acting under the authority of the Imperial Government. He said, "if you insist on this then all is at an end. The Convention is at an end and there is no boundary."
"Your Excellency is mistaken," I answered, "The Convention has been made by the respective Imperial Governments. Neither you nor I can alter that." "Is it then agreed that the boundary is as delimited," he asked. I said it is. (I had received the telegram from Pekin that any further...
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