CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 199

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to enter into unnecessary, the reason for any discussion on this part of the subject, and especially inappropriate to run the risk of creating doubles in the mind.

Shineve raise questions of international Law and technical rights to limits of territorial jurisdiction not otherwise likely to arise. In this I agree with Sir Edmund Hornby, and I am glad to find the necessity no longer exists for any additional Convention.

As regards the possibility you suggest of the Kamma Island being ceded at some period to a foreign Power, you perhaps still think steps should be taken to prevent by anticipation such a contingency. My knowledge of the strong indisposition that exists in the Tsungli Yamen, or Board of Foreign Affairs, presided over by the Prince of Kung, to entertain any proposition for the alienation of Chinese territory, convinces me of the utter hopelessness of any attempt to obtain by negotiation the cession of most barien rock in Chinese Seas. If any evidence...

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198 to enter into unnecessary, the reason for any discussion on this part of the subject, and especially inappropriate to run the risk of creating doubles in the mind. Shineve raise questions of international Law and technical rights to limits of territorial jurisdiction not otherwise likely to arise. In this I agree with Sir Edmund Hornby, and I am glad to find the necessity no longer exists for any additional Convention. As regards the possibility you suggest of the Kamma Island being ceded at some period to a foreign Power, you perhaps still think steps should be taken to prevent by anticipation such a contingency. My knowledge of the strong indisposition that exists in the Tsungli Yamen, or Board of Foreign Affairs, presided over by the Prince of Kung, to entertain any proposition for the alienation of Chinese territory, convinces me of the utter hopelessness of any attempt to obtain by negotiation the cession of most barien rock in Chinese Seas. If any evidence...
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ފު, ށ

to enter inté

unnecessary, the reson,

any discussion

متع همه ای

this poort of the subject, and especially incopectionl to run the risk of creating doubles

Shineve mind

double in the

raise

questions

of international Law and Lechnical. tights

060

to limits of territorial

jurisdiction not otherwise likely

to arise. In this I

In this I agree with

Sir Edmund Hornby,

azn

and I

accouting by glad to find

the necessity no longer exists

your opinion for any

additional

As

Grealy

Sagards

Convention.

Jugures the possibility

you suggest of the Kamma

Ostand being

ceded at some

period to

may

bret

fatwa

Jenign Power, you

that.

perhaps still think steps should be taken to prevent by anticipation such a contingency my knowledge of the strong indisposition that exists in the I sungle Jamen, or

Board Design Affairs, presided over by the Prince of Mong, to entertain any proposition for the alionation, of Chinese territory,

me

f

convinces

of the alter hopelessness of

any attempt to obtain negotiation the cession of

most burien rook

Chinese Seas. If any

the

the

evidence

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