FOREIGN OFFICE.
May 30th. 1899.
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Sir:-
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the telegram from the Tsungli-Yamen, which you left at the Foreign Office on the 22nd. instant complaining of the expulsion of the Chinese troops and officials from the city of Kowloon and the occupation of Shamchun by a British force.
The following brief statement of what has occurred will explain the action which has been taken by the Governor of Hongkong in this matter with the entire approval of Her Majesty's Government.
On the 3rd. of April last an attack was made on an officer of the Hongkong Government at Taipohu where mat sheds had been erected for the accommodation of police and officials of the British Government who would be sent to keep order in the territory assigned to Great Britain under the Convention of the 9th.
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Chinchen Loh Fêng-luh, K.C.V.O.
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