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on this subject, please quote
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209041/10F/19.
not to any person by name,
"The Undor-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Offor,
London, S.W.1.
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Sir:-
RECE
€253
REG 29 JAN 19
FOREIGN OFFICE
S.W.1.
January
197 29. 32
I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th
ultimo, 57707/18, regarding a proposal to lease for
reclamation and building, a small area on the Northern
boundary of the New Territory of Hongkong.
Lord Curzon desires me to state, in reply, that it
appears clear to him that, while the area in question seems to be at present outside the limit of Chinese territory, its reclamation would effect a local alteration
of the high water mark which is stated to form the
boundary along the shores of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, and
if this reclamation were challenged by the Chinese
Government, he thinks it would be impossible to contend
that the expression "high water mark" means a fixed
unalterable/
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
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