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The Under Secretary of State,
War Office,
Pall Mall,
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CONFIDENTIAL.
Ruch 18. Aug. 96
Ragd 19 Aug 96
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.,
17th August
320
1896.
Mong 5
18.
London, (S.W.)
sir,
I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to
acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential letter dated 27th
May 1896, together with its enclosures, on the subject of the
boundaries of liong Kong.
In reply I am instructed to remind you that this question
was carefully considered by the Joint Naval and Military Committee on Defence, whose decision that, from a naval and military point of view, an extension and re-adjustment of the boundaries of liong Kong was desirable, is contained in their Report Number XVII, dated 13th May 1895, a copy of which was forwarded to you as an enclosure to letter No.
Hong long 5
4796 dated 12th June 1895 from this Department.
This decision of the Joint Naval and Military Committee received the approval of the Secretary of State for War (Mr. Campbell-Bannerman) and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and I am to inform you that Lord Lansdowne fully endorses their
Conents
view of the matter.
In
that
One of the main reasons that led the Committee to pro- nounce in favour of a rectification of our frontier was under present circumstances hostile vessels might anchor in
er Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
Chinese
PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
Reference:
C.C.597
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