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effected cannot be altogether left out of account.
Sir E. Grey would therefore invite attention to
the despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking en-
closed in the letter from this Department of July 27th.
In that despatch Sir J. Jordan indicated that,
in his view, all that could reasonably be claimed from
the Chinese Government would be:-
last.
1.
That the Chinese terminal station, now at the
old frontier of Hong Kong, should be moved to the
frontier of the new leased territory.
2. That the Chinese Government should agree to
some formula fixing the status of their office at
Victoria as purely unofficial, and
3. That they should pay the Colonial Government
for their traffic in respect of the section between
the old and new frontiers.
It appears to the Secretary of State that a fair
compromise could be found on these lines provided that
the Eastern Extension Company were at the same time
compelled to pay rent for the telegraph and cable lines
operated