I notice
in his note to you that he
says
he had told Head to take the map to
two in order that those frontiers in which the Colonial Office are interested might be checked by us
Ab
'you' are aware it is out of our power to do this. It is one of
never to draw a
frontier
our rules
on a map
until we have obtained your approval;
a
we
and though, in merely checking frontier already approved by you, might not be breaking it, we should, nevertheless feel that we were stepping somewhat outside our province in constituting ourselves an authority on
such matter.
ww
It so happens that I saw Sir R.
Meade yesterday and I told him that I should have to refer the question to
the Foreign Office.
Yours sincerely
(signed) E. Chapman
Dear Hill
310
Colonial Office
26th January 1895
I
return you
the enclosed
correspondence.
Decide how
Everett and Arnold Forster have
result has sent ... the better
of which
a
copy is annexed. A copy
of it has also been sent to Everett.
Your
SyC
(signed) W. W. E. Hemming