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HIS BRITANIC MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL,
CANTON,
June 23rd, 1902.
10. 50.
Sir:-
In continuation of my despatch "o. 41 of ay
14th regarding the attempt by the Tongking Author-
ities to acquire a Sanatorium at Ca Tal, near
3c80,
I beg to report that I learn from trustworthy sources
that the French Roman Catholic Fission had erected
boundary stones inscribed with their name in Chinese,
enclosing some thirtsen odd mow of land on the high
land behind Macao and facing the Mine Islands.
On the Local Authorities reporting the facts to
the Viceroy, His Excellency at once gave orders and
had the boundary stones pulled up and removed, A
protest was then lodged by the French Mission
against the Viceroy' action and a claim was made
that the lesion were entitled to acquire and hold
land in the interior. The Viceroy replied that he
was
Bir Ernest Batow, K.C.N.G.,
ac.,
&C.,
S