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mile limit of the islands included in the leased area; and claims the whole foreshore, within the limits of the territory, of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay. The Chinese Government have not beer asked to agree to any one of these points, though by the terms of the Convention, the exact boundaries are to be fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two
Governments.
23. The Governor does not think that action should
be taken until the Kowloon Canton Railway agreement
has been disposed of.
it would be desirable to
clear the ground by reference to Foreign Office. I
would therefore
But
? send a copy of this despatch to Foreign Office, Eaying
that the position is as stated in paragraph 22 of this
minute, and enquiring whether His Majesty's Minister
at Peking has ever informed the Chinese Government of the
modification of the Western boundary.
? Say that Lord Crewe agrees with the Governor in
thinking that no steps should be taken for the present,
but that when the Railway agreement is disposed of,
he thinks that the Chinese Government should be invited
Co Mmaro wnin
to send a comunication to verify and accept the North
(ir
and East Boundaries; that they should be invited,
they have not been previously informed by His Majesty's
Minister
ter to agree to the modification of the Western
Boundary, and the slight modification of the Southern
th SW tip d Boundary due to the fact that Tai A.Chap is not in 220 91 M.Latitude,
and explain how we think the altera-
tion of the South west boundary arose (para.13); that in
the
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