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Extract from the "Globe" newspaper dated 21st December 1898.
*We regret to see that in the
Convention between
Great Britain and China with regard to the extension of
Hong-Kong territory which is published to-day, the city
of Kowloon is left under Chinese control, This simply
means that one of the worst conceivable sinks of corruption is to be kept open almost at the gates of Hong-
Kong. Everyone who knows the Far East knows what serious evils have already arisen from the fact that the
Hong-Kong authorities have had no control over Kowloon,
and the perpetuation of this system is an avoidance of
our responsibilities which the Government ought not to
have adopted."