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Letter.
Horns Hot
C. J.
7000
✔
PEK I N G.
The C MART
443
January 2, 1900.
Messieurs les Ministres:-
I have the honour to reply to Your Highness
and Your Excellencies' secret note of 24th December,
requesting me to telegraph to the Foreign Office with
regard to the city of Kowloon,
I find that on the 6th November Mr.
Bax-
Ironside addressed a note to the Yamen communicating
"On the
a telegram from the Foreign Office on this subject
which contained the following passage:
30th May last the Marquess of Salisbury addressed a
note to the Chinese Minister in London stating the
reasons why Her Majesty's Government cannot allow
the resumption by Chinese Authorities of jurisdiction
in Kowloon city, and Her Majesty's Government adhere
to the decision therein contained.
19
Highness Prince Ch'ing,
and Their Excellencies,
The Ministers of the Teungli Yamen.
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