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its meeting the westernmost point on the foreshore
of Deep Bay. They therefore concurred in our proposal,
and added that Lord Salisbury "does not consider it
necessary in the circumstances to invite the concurrence
of the Chinese Government in the proposed modification
but will instruct Her Majesty's Minister at Peking to
inform the Taungli Yamen, when affairs in China have
resumed a more normal condition, of the difficulty which
has arisen and of the manner in which it has been met".
11. A copy of our letter of 18th August 1900 went
to Sir H.Blake, in a confidential despatch of the 20th
December 1900, together with a copy of the map (I.D. 1393) corrected so as to show this boundary alteration.
For some reason which I don't understand it
was thought unnecessary to send the Governor a copy of
the Foreign Office reply, but the map together with the
copy of our letter is sufficient to show that Foreign
Office accepted our view: Sir F.Lugard's attention
should have been drawn to this despatch by his people.
We have never heard from the Foreign Office
whether the Chinese Government were ever informed of
the manner in which the difficulty had been met; enquiry from them would show if China was told and
accepted the situation.
12.
13.
As regards the southern portion of the western boundary and the western portion of the southern
boundary, there is nothing in the correspondence to show Lacking the boundary 113°32′ 41 W 22°g on the South definitely how the alteration was made.
The convention
map gives a line drawn from the S.W.tép of Lantao to the S.W. tep of TailCha which was supposed to be in
latitude
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