CONFIDENTIAL.
Row 13H
for any partof Hong Kong whether
leased teritor
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Tue 10 JUL IT
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 8th. June, 1911.
Mr. Fiddes
Please see my minutes on 23739 and
13.
783
10797. It seems to me out of the question, as a
practical proposition, to put forward a claim for
a reduced tariff on goods entering China by our railway
from Kowloon to Ca oton.
The goods on that route enter China from leased
territory, anyhow but even if technically we had a claim
we could not put it forward.
7 Stübl.
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10797
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Confidential Despatches of the 13th. of last
January and the 25th. of last April, and with reference to Sir
John Jordan's Despatch No. 37 of the 28th. of last January, of
which you have forwarded me a copy, I desire to point out that
the words "Hongkong, being an island, has no land connection
"with China except through the Kowloon extension, which is held
"on lease from the Chinese Government" do not accurately re-
-present the facts. Sir John Jordan has apparently overlooked
Article 6 of the Convention of Peace and Friendship between
Great Britain and China, signed at Peking on the 24th. October,
1860, under which a "portion of the township of Kowloon" was
ceded by China to Great Britain. This Colony therefore has a
Colonial land frontier marching with Chinese territory ir-
-respective
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&C.,
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