telegrams + from the Governors, reporting that further disturbances have taken place.

2. I am also to enclose copy of a telegram which has been sent to Sir Hay Blake, and to point out that this later information strongly confirms the views expressed in paragraph 2 of the letter from this Department referred to above, viz. that the village of Sham Chun should be included within the boundary, and that the Customs Stations should be immediately withdrawn for Shuntay.

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+ Ass 96975 * 971453. Mr. Chamberlain to my Lord the Viceroy in the request, reported five things the tells opissus my suspicions the circumstances reches crimes the repeated whs by thinner selling no British puces font shugh wensscretion, the positive, the positive is also of opin 515 that the action of the Chinese authorities sending additional troops to the Kowloon city on Friday last, although lenitoy had not they been actually taken contrary over was both spirit of the Convention for the extension of the boundaries of the Colony and that the presence of the troops is mischievous inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong? He would therefore suggest, if Lord Salisbury sees no objection, that Her Majesty's representative at Peking should be instructed to press for the immediate removal of the Chinese officials

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