Meetings of the Navy League and the China Association have been held in confection with the reported stipulation in the Kowloon Extension Convention to the effect that China shall retain jurisdiction over the native city of Kowloon. At first this statement was not credited, but believed to: be @ mistake on the part of the Times correspondent, but gradually conviction has been creeping over, the public mind. that, incredible as it seemed, there is something in the report. The Navy League dispatched a telegram to the Head Office in London on the 11th inst. to the effect that this city must be included in the Jeaso to Great Britain, and action has also been taken by the local branch of the China Association which dispatched a K.C. strong-worded telegram home on the subject yesterday. Many residents are eager fo have a public meeting and do something to let of steam and impress the Imperial Government with their sense of the importance of the question. The Chamber of Commerce is alSo taking up the matter in much earnest.
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