Governors of Hongkəng and Singapore, while that
portion of it which relates to the protection to
be accorded to transient visitors seems calcula-
ted to meet Their Excellencies' views on a point
to which they attach great importance.
Your
proposals would appear to provide the best method
yet dewibed of arriving at a final settlement of
this long vexed question, and I therefore
authorise you to instruct His Majesty's Consul
General at Shanghai to open negotiations on the se
lines with the Chinese authorities and to instruct
His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton
to approach the local Government with a view
to modifying the scheme already accepted by us
as regards the Provinces of Kwangtung and
Kwangsi by the inclusion of the proposed
provisions for the protection of transient
visitors. In order to justify the consequential
amendment of the China Order in Council,
referred to in the next paragraph of this
despatch, it will be necessary to place
definitely on record His Majesty's abandonment
of his rights of jurisdiction over the persons
concerned
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