CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7] — Page 41

CONFIDENTIAL.

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Tue 10 JUL IT

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 8th. June, 1911.

Mr. Fiddes

Please see my minutes on 23739 and

13.

783

10797. It seems to me out of the question, as a

practical proposition, to put forward a claim for

a reduced tariff on goods entering China by our railway

from Kowloon to Ca oton.

The goods on that route enter China from leased

territory, anyhow but even if technically we had a claim

we could not put it forward.

7 Stübl.

This is

All

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• Copy cam Wetter &??. & for cong's

10797

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your Confidential Despatches of the 13th. of last

January and the 25th. of last April, and with reference to Sir

John Jordan's Despatch No. 37 of the 28th. of last January, of

which you have forwarded me a copy, I desire to point out that

the words "Hongkong, being an island, has no land connection

"with China except through the Kowloon extension, which is held

"on lease from the Chinese Government" do not accurately re-

-present the facts. Sir John Jordan has apparently overlooked

Article 6 of the Convention of Peace and Friendship between

Great Britain and China, signed at Peking on the 24th. October,

1860, under which a "portion of the township of Kowloon" was

ceded by China to Great Britain. This Colony therefore has a

Colonial land frontier marching with Chinese territory ir-

-respective

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Anne Wh

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&C.,

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