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administered under the Pitish

Crown is inadmissible.

Nore-

over, the provision in the Con-

vention that "within the City

"of Kowloon the Chinese Officials

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now stationed there shall con-

"tinue to exercise jurisdiction,"

c. was clearly intended to appl

to civil officials only. It

would, however, be advisable to

avoid, if possible, all disous-

sion with the Chinese Authori-

ties on the point, and to confine

the commcnication to be addressed

to them to a request for the with-

drawal of the troops at an early

date, to be mutually agreed upon,

and which should not be later

than the date at which the ad-

inistration of the leased terri-

territory is taken over by the

Hon; Kong overnment.

With reference to the second

question, Her Majesty's Govern-

ment have undertaken to adopt all

possible precautions to prevent

the leased area from being used

to facilitate smuggling into

China, or in any other way to

the detriment of Chinese inter-

ests.

7

You have already intimated

to the Chinese Government in the

note which you addressed to the

Tsungli-Yamen on the 20th.Sep-

tember, that the "Regulations"

drawn up by the Viceroy of Canton

with this object cannot be adopt-

ed, and the proposals of Sir

Robert Hart, enclosed in your

tory

despatch