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effected cannot be altogether left out of account.

Sir E. Grey would therefore invite attention to

the despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking en-

closed in the letter from this Department of July 27th.

In that despatch Sir J. Jordan indicated that,

in his view, all that could reasonably be claimed from

the Chinese Government would be:-

last.

1.

That the Chinese terminal station, now at the

old frontier of Hong Kong, should be moved to the

frontier of the new leased territory.

2. That the Chinese Government should agree to

some formula fixing the status of their office at

Victoria as purely unofficial, and

3. That they should pay the Colonial Government

for their traffic in respect of the section between

the old and new frontiers.

It appears to the Secretary of State that a fair

compromise could be found on these lines provided that

the Eastern Extension Company were at the same time

compelled to pay rent for the telegraph and cable lines

operated