CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 435

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431

Copy of despatch from His Majesty's Minister,

Peking, to the Admiral, China Station, the Governor of Hongkong and His Majesty's Consuls at Canton and

Swatow.

Sir:-

PEKING,

August 16th, 1908.

I have received a despatch from His Majesty's

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs respecting a

proposal made by two British subjects, Messrs. Harry

Kendall Carse Newman and Langton Wilkinson, to the

effect that His Majesty's Government should annex the

islet of Pratas in the China Seas.

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This islet, which is situated about 170 miles due

S.E. of Hongkong, in latitude 20° 42' 3" North and

longitude 1160 43' 14" East of Greenwich, would appear

never to have been formally occupied by, or claimed as

forming part of the possessions of any Power, but from

the voluminous correspondence enclosed in Sir E.Grey's

despatch abovementioned, there would seem to be indica-

tions that, although the Chinese Government had never

exercised any act of authority over the islets which

form the atoll, occasions have occurred, as in 1882,

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