M-Tidaian
Bring down the paper giving the Law Officers opinion as to the foreshore & sheath to me
CP.d
16
The Attorney General informe Mr Cox that if a map is published, it should Show the extreme limito
turmitory
1
British or British claims. It should
lystimate
an
therefore show the foreshore of the bays a being British
Buford
I should answer informing
A
the Foreign Office of the Law Micers opinion"
this
d
Subject & stating
as above, and
I should ask for Lord Salisbrug's opinion
as to whether any
awkward
question
with
losure
Ber: Jans.
China is likely to arise if a may is publichen shrving the foreshore as British, adding
the Attorney Genual
that in the opinion of
daim
any map issued should embody all that Great Britain can legiüimately
CPd
to proceed alone
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Sir:-
OFFICE
tx
P12 JAN 00
355
FOREIGN OFFICE,
January 11th, 1900.
I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to
transmit to you a Map of Hongkong and the neighbour-
ing territories marked I.D. No.1393, which has been
received from the Director of Military Intelligence
with an inquiry whether His Lordship sees any ob-
jection to its being placed on sale to the public.
It will be observed that the land boundary of
the colony, as recently extended, does not appear
on the map.
As the delimitation of the boundary has now been
completed I am to suggest that, if the Secretary
of State for the Colonies sees no objection, the
Director of Military Intelligence should be supplied
with the particulars necessary to enable him to
mark the line on the map, and should be informed
that when thus completed there is no objection to
e Under Secretary of State
Colonial / Office. 272
its
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