Foreign Office. October 20th, 1899.
Confidential.
I laid before the Marquess of Salisbury your 1/X letter of the 21st instant and I am directed to say that His Lordship concurs in the terms of the telegram which Mr Secretary Chamberlain proposes to send to the Governor of Hongkong in regard to the retrocession of Sham Chan.
Under Secretary of State Colonial Office