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PEK I N G.

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January 2, 1900.

Messieurs les Ministres:-

I have the honour to reply to Your Highness

and Your Excellencies' secret note of 24th December,

requesting me to telegraph to the Foreign Office with

regard to the city of Kowloon,

I find that on the 6th November Mr.

Bax-

Ironside addressed a note to the Yamen communicating

"On the

a telegram from the Foreign Office on this subject

which contained the following passage:

30th May last the Marquess of Salisbury addressed a

note to the Chinese Minister in London stating the

reasons why Her Majesty's Government cannot allow

the resumption by Chinese Authorities of jurisdiction

in Kowloon city, and Her Majesty's Government adhere

to the decision therein contained.

19

Highness Prince Ch'ing,

and Their Excellencies,

The Ministers of the Teungli Yamen.

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