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SIR,
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No. 129.
COLONIAL OFFICE to Foreign offICE.
[Answered by No. 131.]
Downing Street, April 26, 1899. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, for the information of the Marquess of Salisbury, the enclosed paraphrase of a further telegram* from the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the recent disturbances in the territory recently taken over from China.
2. It appears to Mr. Chamberlain that the action of the Viceroy in this matter affords good ground for insisting on the abandonment by the Chinese Government of all jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon.
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DIR,
(Secret.)
No. 130.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 133,]
Downing Street, April 27, 1899. WITH reference to your letter of the 20th instant, and to previous correspondence on the subject, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Salisbury, a copy of a telegramţ from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting the continued presence of Chinese soldiers in Kowloon city.
2. I am at the same time to enclose a copy of the telegraphic reply which Mr. Chamberlain proposes, with Lord Salisbury's concurrence, to send to Sir H. Blake, and to request that instructions may be sent to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Pekin to bring further pressure to bear on the Yamen in order that, with the view of preventing bloodshed, they may order the immediate withdrawal of the Chinese troops.
Enclosure in No. 130.
I am, &c.,
DRAFT TELEGRAM to GovERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE.
C. P. LUCAS.
In answer to your telegram of 26th April, notify Viceroy once more; if he refuses to comply arrange with General to starve out garrison, allowing no one to go in or out of city till troops removed. Inform Minister Pekin, and urge further pressure on Viceroy.
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addressed to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking yesterday, on the subject of the disturbances in the territory recently taken over from China in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong.
Enclosure in No. 131.
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS BERTIE,
The MARQUESS or SALISBURY to MR. BAX-IRONSIDE. (Confidential. No. 73.) (Telegraphic.)
Foreign Office, April 26, 1899, 10 p.m. Inform the Yamên that Her Majesty's Government have been most painfully impressed by the recent occurrences at Kowloon, and the resistance offered to the carrying out of the Convention of 9th June.
They are convinced that the repeated attacks made on the British force by Chinese troops in uniform cannot have taken place without the effective concurrence of the local authorities, and this view is confirmed by the refusal of the Viceroy to remove his troops from the leased territory when urged to do so by the Governor of Hong Kong, and by the despatch of 600 additional men to Kowloon city on the 14th instant, and the capture of Chinese military flags.
Her Majesty's Government have further seen instructions which were sent from Canton to the officer in command of the coast forts, that in the event of more than three British men-of-war entering the harbour, fire was at once to be opened on them.
Intimate that Her Majesty's Government will be compelled to ask for satisfaction for these grave injuries, and that they reserve their demands pending further consideration of the form which they should take."
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No. 132.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE. - [See No. 203.]
(Confidential.)
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SIR,
Downing Street, April 28, 1899. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 58, of the 10th ultimo, enclosing copies of a memorandum, by the Director of Public Works, respecting the survey of the new territory, and of a letter addressed by you to the Government of India on the subject.
2. You will remember that in paragraph 34 of my confidential despatch of the 6th January, I expressed the opinion that the expense of a thorough and complete survey, however desirable, would probably at present be too great; and I must confess that I had not anticipated that the immediate undertaking of this costly work would have been found necessary. You have, I presume, satisfied yourself that this is the case, and that a survey on a larger scale than was indicated in my despatch is absolutely indispensable; but I need hardly impress upon you the importance of observing the strictest economy in this. as in other undertakings connected with the new territory.
I have, &c..
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No. 131.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
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No. 138.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 29, 1899.)
Foreign Office, April 28, 1899.
I HAVE laid before the Marquess of Salisbury your letter of the 27th instant,
inclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong in which he reports the
(Received April 28, 1899.)
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(Secret.)
STR.
Foreign Office, April 27, 1899. WITH reference to your letters of the 16th,§ 18th,|| 21st, ¶ and 26th instant,** I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you a copy of a telegram which he
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