6.
impressed upon her ere this and that is that her Rulers
on
Terms
must receive Foreigners of equality, and with those outward signs of respect which are accorded to them by the civilized nations of the world. 10. The points however to
which I desire to call Your. Lordship's earnest attention
ari
not only that the Chinese government and Empire have
Collapsed
it
may
be only temporarily - but that they
rotten reeds upon which
art
&
to rely.
Their collapse the humiliating position to which they have been reduced,
as well
a
their possible
Whabilitation in the future
is at present and
be
may hereafter
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source of Considerable
hereafter a danger to Hong Kong.
11.
no doubt if peace is made between China & Japan the European powers, and expecially England must have much to
zay
to the conditions upon which such au
Can
as
arrangement
be arrived at. Japan
of course, and probably Russia
conditions, con.
will wisest on
-cessions and possibly cessions
of territory. Whether
12.
or not such should
be the case I desire to point
out most forcibly that adjustment and
an
an extension.
of the boundaries of this Colony is peremptorily necessary and that the position of Hongkong, the "Gibraltar of the
East
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