from 7.0.
Macale of the pouch.
We can send Lo.acozz of 10345 and your answering telegram on 19773, and I think we should send them either 10773 or 10707, as they have no direct movement of troops.
Reference military operations, we mean to blockade Kowloon...
I do not think we need send more telegrams to the War Office, but 10214 should be acknowledged.
I think we had better telegraph to the Governor: Are soldiers still in Kowloon? See also 10821 C.Pd. 2 Mar.
This is a pretty stiff message, Delegraft to front as proper...
Foreign Office, May 1. 1899.
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I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, a copy of a telegram from Her Majesty's Chargé d'affaires at Peking reporting the result of the representations made by him to the Tsungli Yamen with regard to recent occurrences at Kowloon.
Lord Salisbury has instructed her Majesty's Minister to reply to the Chinese Government to the effect that unless proper consideration be given to his representations, Her Majesty's Government must conclude that the Tsungli Yamen are ignorant of...