Page.
Berial
From or to whom.
Despatch
Date.
No.
No., &c.
1899.
251
Foreign Office
1899.
Confi. dential.
September 27 Considers that Sham Chan should con- tinue in British occupation for the present, and states that there will be no unnecessary delay in deciding the date of its retrocession.
344
262
To War Office
Confi- dential.
October 21
252
Law Officers
→
September 27 Reports as to the national status of the 344
inhabitants of the new territory.
263
Board of Trade
October 23
253
Governor Bir H. A.
Blake.
Conf. dential.
August 31 (Rec. Oct. 2.)
Transmita copies of communications 345
between himself and Major-General Gascoigne dealing with the situation in the valley of Sham Chun; urges the settlement of the question of the retirement from the valley or its. retention.
264
Foreign Office
Confi- dential.
October 24
254 Foreign Office
Confi- 'dential.
October 4
355
Transmits copy of a telegram from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Pekin further respecting the British occupation of Sham Chan, &c.; sug- gests that the Governor of Hong Kong be instructed to arrange for the retrocession of Sham Chun to China.
Suggests terms on which the retroces- sion of Sham Chun should be made.
265
To Governor Sir H.
A. Blake.
248
October 26
255
To Foreign Office...
Confi. dential.
October 9
355
..266
War Office...
Secret
October 28
255A To
Governor Sir H. A. Blake.
226
October 10
Conveys purport of No. 252
357
267
Foreign Office
236 Foreign Office
October 13
States that so far as the Admiralty are aware al public property which belonged to the Chinese Government
357
Coufi- dential.
October 28
257
To Governor
Bir
234
October 13
H. A. Blake.
at Wei-hai-Wei has been taken over without payment.
Presumes that the cost of the Steel❘ 357
sugar mills referred to in No. 243 will not be made a charge upon Colonial funds.
268
To Governor Sir H.
A. Blake.
251
October 31
Subject.
Page.
States that Her Majesty's Government 361
have decided to withdraw immediately from Sham Chun; proposes to tele- graph to the Governor of Hong Kong to that effect.
Transmits copy of a letter from the Corporation of Trinity House making certain recommendations, in which the Board of Trade concur, as to the lighting of the southern approaches to Hong Kong Harbour."
362
Concurs in terms of telegram proposed 362
in No. 261, und states that correspond- ing instructions will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Pekin:
concurs in proposals as to the acquisition of Gap Rock and the issue of a now Order in Council.
Expresses appreciation of the services of the Volunteers as recorded in No. 258, and states that a copy of the correspondence has been forwarded to the War Office.
Concurs in proposal in No. 262...
363
363
Transmits copy of a note from Sir Lo | 364
Feng Luh requesting that arrange- ments may be made for the retro- cession of Sham Chan to the Chinese Government.
Informs him in reply to No. 223 that Her Majesty's Government at present see no reason for offering to pay for the public buildings in the new terri tory evacuated by the Chinese Customs; and as regards the lighthouse on Waglan Island, transmits copy of the letter from the Corporation of Trinity House enclosed in No. 263.
365
Refers to No. 268, and requests that a
365 rough estimate of the value of the buildings evacuated by the Chinese Customs should be prepared in case it should be decided to set off their value against the
compensation claimed from the Chinese Govern- ment.
Conveys instructions for withdrawal from Sham Chun and as to the com- munication to be addressed to the Viceroy of Canton; requests a full statement of additional expenditure caused by occupation.
363
Urges with reference to No. 267 that 366
Sir Lo Fong Lnh should be informed that Chinese authority cannot be restored in the city of Kowloon; suggests that instructions should be given to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Pekin similar to those communicated to the Governor of Hong Kong in No. 270,
258
Governor Sir H. A.
Blake.
265
September 15 (Rec. Oct. 16,)
Calls attention to the services rendered by the Hong Kong Volunteers when called out in connection with the occupation of the new territory.
358
269
Ditto
Confi- dential.
October 31
259
Foreign Office
Confi- dential.
October 17
Concurs in the view expressed in No. 359
255 with regard to the possession of Gap Rock and the pledge to be exacted from the Chinese Government with regard to the maintenance of order in Kowloon and respect for the British frontier, but deprecates press- ing the Chinese Government for an indemnity.
270
Ditto
Telegram November 2
260 To Governor Sir H.
240
October 19
Acknowledges receipt of No. 244
360
A. Blake.
261
To Foreign Office ...
Confi- dential.
October 21
271
To Foreign Office
Submits observations on No. 259 as to defraying the cost of the occupation of Sham Chun. Submits draft of a telegram to the Governor of Hong Kong: suggests with regard to Gap Rock that the existing state of things should be allowed to continue.
361
Confi- dential.
November 2
238
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