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Secret.
R
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C. O
33676
REC
Reet 27 NOV 09
Government House.
30th October 1909.
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My Lord,
In continuation of my Confidential despatch
of the 3rd of July 1909 I have the honour to inform you that General Sir Joachim Machado, the Portuguese High Commissioner for the Macao delimitation, called upon me
on the 20th instant in an entirely unofficial way.
He appeared very despondent as to the propects of the
Delimitation Commission and said it was no longer a
question of negotiation since the Chinese now repudiated
the Treaties themselves. I will not enter into the subject
of the dispute which he detailed at some length, for
I have your Lordship's instructions (Confidential despatch
of the 26th of August 1909) that I am in no way to intervene in the matter. I asked if he proposed to go
to arbitration and he replied that the Chinese would not
hear of it.
2.
General Machado then told me that he had news
that the Chinese were accumulating a great quantity of
arms and warlike stores at Tiger Island (at the mouth of
the Canton River) and apparently the main object of his
visit was to ask me whether I had any information on this
subject. I replied that I had none, that the place in
question was too far from Hongkong territory for me to
be in close touch with what might be going on there, and
that my
e Right Honourable,
the Earl of Crewe.
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