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M Coates

M Kirkness has Telephoned

and explained that,

with out looking up

we

camurt

augve

mi

Para

vassed

we suspect that

the old papers,

the question

2 of (1) though

❤

servois

would have been

considèration

Gwen

in

1911

to

the porbility

Hong Kime's seaward

of defining Hong Kime's

boundaries

in

with

The

rather than

M' Coates

have

may attacked

accordanc

three mile limit.

the

undertook

then enes

assumption

that

иле

set out in the

1898 Convention.

to lab

an

The

the position in

suspect. Membah

1711

relevant

1911

paper are

being

sutamad

to

confirm

Qui

I have

Blaupar

17/1

excummed

carlie'' papers. It appears

1911

and

that

in

framming

the Interpretation