CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 145

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and saw Chani are included within the

Colony

as extended

ly

the Convention with the

Chunes Government.

3. The lease of

the islands included

the limits fixid

in the

the Convention does confer upon His

by

Majesty the usual territorial

rights

waters within

the three mile bint 24 I have to

hout out with regard to the last sentence in Fragraph 2 of your

the

desfatich under ach?

Article

sever if territorial right dis

not exist over the waters referred

that stick 52 of the in the last paragraph

Treaty of Trentoni

provides that

British

ships of War coming for no hodite penfore or

to

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The mag

however

Effuture be regarde t fomfidential

being bagaged in the pursuit offrirates, shall be at liberty to visit all forts within the dominions of the embers of China, and

shall recur every

every

facility for the Junchen offronsions, et

5. I have to

add that the copies

of the mass transmitted

ni

A

my desf. No. 116 of

the 12th April last

intended for the official use of the Gar

of

Hong Kong, and

Lady not for publication for

if

6. I baguett

that by an oversight

Sir H. Blake!

gandesf. has remained long unanswered. I have