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Lockhart's report.

It is proposed that the

formal ceremony of taking over

the new extension should take

place early in February, and it

is therefore necessary that no

time should be lost in coming

to an understanding with the

Chinese Goverment on some of the

more important questions in-

volved.

For the present these may

be summarized under three heads:

(a)

(b)

The jurisdiction to

be exercised within the

city of Kowloon.

The measures to be

adopted for the preven-

tion of smuggling, and

for the Collection of

the

(c)

the Chinese Customs.

The question of the

boundary.

With regard to the first,

it would appear from Iir. Lockhart's

report that the jurisdiction

hitherto exercised in Kowloon

city has been of a Military

rather than of a civil character

and that there is a likelihood

of the departure of the Military

Sarrison being followed by

that of the small Civil popula-

tion.

If so, the difficulty

anticipated with regard to this

Article of the Convention may

gradually disappear of itself.

In any case, however, the con-

tinued existence of a Chines€

garrison in territory adminis-

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tarod