From 1898 to 1930, the British leased the territory of Weihawei, in northeast China, at the eastern tip of Shandong, opposite Dailan and Port Arthur. However, the lease was conditional on foreign control of Port Arthur so the British never developed it the way they did with Hong Kong. In 1909, Frederick Lugard, then Governor of Hong Kong, submitted a proposal that Weihawei be returned to Chinese control immediately in exchange for a perpetual lease on Hong Kong's New Territories, but nothing came of it. Is there a reasonable possibility that this could have been accepted by the births government? Would the Chinese have agreed to it?