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Island. There can be no dispute as to that portion of the
Southern frontier which lies to the E of Tai A Chau, but that
portion which lies W of Tai A Chau is quite differently shown
on the unauthoritative map published in the Colonial Office
list for 1909 to face page 218, and I shall have some further
remarks to make with regard to it when I come to deal with
the Western frontier.
4.
The Eastern frontier as shown on
the map attached to the Convention is the meridian of
longitude 114°.30' E of Greenwich: and in 1902 Lieut. &
:
Commander F.M.Leake, R.N. and the officers of H.M.S."Bramble"
set up a stone in Chinese Territory on the Eastern Point of
Mirs Bay with the following inscription:-
1902
"This stone is in Longitude 1140.30'.0* E. Fixed
*by Lieut.& Commander F.M.Leake R.N. and the officers of
"H.M.S. Bramble. From a point at high water mark due South
"of this stone, the boundary runs due South until it meets
"the parallel or 22°.9'.0* N. To the Northward it follows
"the Shore of Mirs Bay".
I cannot find that the Chinese
Government was ever asked to agree to the erection of this
boundary stone or has acquiesced in the position of, and the
inscription