CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 329

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Victoria, Hongkong, 6th November, 1846.

I have again to address Your Exsectiony concerning the invasion of the territory of my Sovereign by the officer at Kowloon.

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A letter has been received by the Chief Magistrate of Hongkong from that officer, proving the depositions before taken, according to which the officer at Kowloon really permitted some

- some of his soldiers to carry away a person from the Colony.

That officer cannot be

cannot be ignorant of the

gravity of such an offence against a friendly nation, since in the 11th moon

of the 24th.

24

year it was.

- mutually underston

that Hongkong, being British Territory,

His Excellency,

Keying.

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