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waters if Deep Bay (bounded by South-Test Point and

Black Point) and Mirs Bay (bounded by Hirs Point and

Fung Head) were dry land and British territory.

both think, however, that the Colonial Government must

have a very definite idea of their own poos: bly even

embodied in legislation or regulations of one kind or

another of what they regard as the territorial waters

of Hong Kong. If that is the case, it would obviously

be desirable for us to be guided by their established

Should you have no information on the

practice.

point in London, we should be most grateful if you would

be good enough to telegraph to Hong Kong on the subject

and ask them, if their interpretation differs from the

^ne I have given above (on the basis of which the

Admiralty hydrographer is preparing a chart), to send

home by air mail copies of a chart showing their own

interpretation.

(Sd.) C. W. ORDE