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Tsungli Yamen to Sir Claude MacDonald.
PEKING.
December 24th, 1899.
On the 14th instant when Your Excellency came to
the Yamen we laid before you our views with regard to
Shamchun, we said, had already
the city of Kowloon.
been restored to China, but the conduct of affairs
within the City of Kowloon should, in accordance
with the provisions of the Convention, he adminis-
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tered by Chinese Officials.
Your Excellency was good enough to consent to
transmit our arguments to your Government.
We desire however to again place the matter
carefully before Your Excellency.
The position as regards the city of Kowloon is
without doubt analogous to that of the city of Kinchow
situate within the leased area at Port Arthur.
If
the city of Kowloon be not administered by Chinese
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