CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 443

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APPENDIX G.

EXTRACTS FROM THE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPER, CHINA No. 1 (1899) (SIR ROBERT HART'S PROPOSALS).

No. 294.

Sir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Salisbury.

MY LORD,

PEKING, July 4, 1898.

Referring to my despatch of the 23rd June to your Lordship on the subject of the extension of the territory of Hong Kong, I have the honour to inclose copy of a letter which has been addressed to me by Sir Robert Hart on the assistance required from the Hong Kong Government by the Chinese Customs authorities.

A copy of this letter is being sent to the Hong Kong Government.

In accordance with your Lordship's telegraphic instructions of the 23rd June, I have instructed Her Majesty's Consul at Canton to give the Hong Kong authorities every assistance in the directions indicated by your Lordship.

SIR,

I have, &c.,

(Signed)

CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.

INCLOSURE IN No. 294.

Sir R. Hart to Sir C. MacDonald.

INSPECTORATE General of Customs,

PEKING, June 27, 1898.

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 24th June, informing me that you have received a communication from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, asking you, in view of the recent leasing to Great Britain of part of Kowloon peninsula and the adjacent islands, what arrangements the Imperial Maritime Customs of China would propose, and where stations would be placed, and in reply to state in the following

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