Lordship is informed that a reply has been received to the letters addressed to the War Office by your Department on the subject.
' and that the telegram has been sent, corresponding instructions will at once be forwarded to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking.
Lord Salisbury agrees, as regards acquisition of Gap Rock, that existing arrangements should be allowed to continue, and he does not propose to instruct Mr Bar. Dronside to make any communication to the Chinese Government on the subject.
I am to add that the proposal that an Order in Council should be prepared amending that of October 20, 1898, and declaring Kowloon City to be in all respects and ... for