that he sees
Zoo
reator
to depart pose the decision
arrived
at
with regard to
Sham Chen, viz: -
that the
place should be held for the
present
as
a pledge for
the
fulfilment by the Chinese
Government of
their engagements
in respect of
the northern
Railways and other matters
under discussion with
them recently, and I am
to inclose
for
(436)
for Int
Secretary Chamberlain's
confidential information
telegram addressed to Her
Majesty's Chargé d'affaires
at Peking
the 20th instant,
in which he was instructed to intimate
to the Chinese Government that the attitude of
Her Majesty's Government
in regard to the
territory now held by the Hongkong Government outside