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meeting the Chinese mainland at the S.W. point of Deep

Bay reaches the mainland at a point considerably further

North close by the township called Sai Heung, thus in-

cluding the larger part of Tai Cham Bay and the whole

foreshore opposite the district city of Nam Tao where the

Chinese Magistrate for San On district resides. Moreover,

an examination of the 2 inch map of Lantao prepared by Mr.

Newland will show that Tai 0 Police Station built by this

Government is not really situated on Lantao Island, but on

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a separate island, called by the natives Po Chu Tan, and

at all tides cut off from Lantao by a very narrow creek.

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702.

As Mr.Newland's map is more recent and more accurate than

that forwardwin General Gascoigne's confidential despatch

of the 27th.August, 1902, I forward a copy of it for the

use of Your Lordship's department with this despatch.

8.

Sir Henry Blake in his confiden-

tial despatch of the 18th July, 1901, raised certain points

in connection with the extension of the boundaries of

Hongkong, and Mr. Chamberlain stated in his reply dated

the 17th January, 1902, that "the islands of Tung Ko, Pak

Chau and Saw Chau are included within the Colony as ex-

tended by the Convention with the Chinese Government'

and

that