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1909,

Canton, December

Hsuan Tung, 1st.year,llth.moon,

15th. day.

His Excellency Yuan, Acting Governor-General of the

Liang Kuang, to Mr. J. W. Jamieson,

"I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your despatch in the matter of the criminal Liang Tom. I find that the Kowloon Convention merely mentions that

the territory in question was leased to Great Britain, but does not state that the inhabitants thereof agreed to change their nationality and become British subjects. You refer to the

opinion of the leading legal authorities in London, namely that the inhabitants of the leased territory became British subjects, but you do not show that this opinion was ever agreed to by China, and it is impossible for me to accept it. I have, however, already referred the question to the Wai Wu Pu for

decision.

I avail etc.,

(Seal of Governor-General.)