CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 128

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

to have embodied in the proposed.

lease of the territory

are the boundaries

described in the Memorandum of the

Colonial Defence Committee of April

28.

Lord

Salistriry

is however of opinicr

that it must be left to Sir Claude

Macdonald's

judgment

to determine

how far it is practicable to modify

in the direction indicated

arrangement

made

the Sangli- Yams.

the

verbally with

on the subject.

I am to add that His Lordship

Sees uo

objection to the officer

:administering the Government of

the

(olony bring informed confidentially

of the fact that Her Majesty's Government Cluna for

au

are

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negotiating with

extension of the boundarie

of the Colony, brit that pending. definite settlement of the question

it might be adursable not to enter wito details in

the proposed limits

аш,

Your

Sir,

Q

regard to

most obedient, humble Servant.

Fancis Bertie

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