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18. Hon.
PORTUGUESE LEGATION,
London.
4th October, 1921.
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My Lord,
I have the honour to saknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Note of the les instant, regarding the recent incident at Maeno, contents of which I duly comunicated to
By Government. By a telegram of the lat October, I am instructed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to make the following communication which I take the liberty of trazalatin, literally.
1. Portugal is prepared to accept the mediation of Great Britain who would appoint a aposial delegate to investigate the insident of the 16th September, and the old question of the land and maritime boundaries of the Jolony. Pending the delegate's reports on the remite of his findings the Okinase torpedo-boat, according to the established International Law and practice, to
leave the harbour of Macao and no other man-of-war to
enter unless respecting Portuguese sovereignty id. qut. maintain the statu-que which the Treaty of 1807 disponen should be respected, Portugal requesta Oreat Britain's
mediation in this weIMO,
2. should the Canton Government refuse the mediation
under these term, Portugal will be constrained to no
longer tolerate the inmult she is ressiving from the presence and refusals of the torpede boat, and, having
consequently to emply force and anticipating an armed conflict with Cantonese troops far superior in number
to thoes which she has at her disposal in Kacae, thus asks the British Government if she can depend on Great
Britain's
Marqueas Curson of Kedleston, X.G..
te.. ste.
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