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Island. There can be no dispute as to that portion of the

Southern frontier which lies to the E of Tai A Chau, but that

portion which lies W of Tai A Chau is quite differently shown

on the unauthoritative map published in the Colonial Office

list for 1909 to face page 218, and I shall have some further

remarks to make with regard to it when I come to deal with

the Western frontier.

4.

The Eastern frontier as shown on

the map attached to the Convention is the meridian of

longitude 114°.30' E of Greenwich: and in 1902 Lieut. &

:

Commander F.M.Leake, R.N. and the officers of H.M.S."Bramble"

set up a stone in Chinese Territory on the Eastern Point of

Mirs Bay with the following inscription:-

1902

"This stone is in Longitude 1140.30'.0* E. Fixed

*by Lieut.& Commander F.M.Leake R.N. and the officers of

"H.M.S. Bramble. From a point at high water mark due South

"of this stone, the boundary runs due South until it meets

"the parallel or 22°.9'.0* N. To the Northward it follows

"the Shore of Mirs Bay".

I cannot find that the Chinese

Government was ever asked to agree to the erection of this

boundary stone or has acquiesced in the position of, and the

inscription