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waters if Deep Bay (bounded by South-Test Point and
Black Point) and Mirs Bay (bounded by Hirs Point and
Fung Head) were dry land and British territory.
both think, however, that the Colonial Government must
have a very definite idea of their own poos: bly even
embodied in legislation or regulations of one kind or
another of what they regard as the territorial waters
of Hong Kong. If that is the case, it would obviously
be desirable for us to be guided by their established
Should you have no information on the
practice.
point in London, we should be most grateful if you would
be good enough to telegraph to Hong Kong on the subject
and ask them, if their interpretation differs from the
^ne I have given above (on the basis of which the
Admiralty hydrographer is preparing a chart), to send
home by air mail copies of a chart showing their own
interpretation.
(Sd.) C. W. ORDE