Confidential;
Foreign Office,
507
September 8, 1899.
My own view is that now it has been taken it will be impossible to draw back from Sham Chun. We have now been too long there to draw back, although for our own purpose, the original boundary is the right one.
Draft for consideration
CPd
11 Sept
At any rate an answer must be sent.
Lovey
on the other hand
Fronside
of July 6.
Swn hfl
Sir,
I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of despatch respecting the opposition of the Chinese to the taking over of the Kowloon Extension by Her Majesty's Government.
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Tho Sanderson
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