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of Hongkong residents by occasional change of air
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scene and the escape such as it is, from the monotony of this dreary
hill side
And lastly it should be recollected that the
acquisition of this ground
will entail no expense on Government for I
anticipate that the Colonial Revenue will be
very materially increased by the sale of land
on
the new site.
Then as to the question of loss or gain to the Chinese -
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I have already shown that they have no authority in,
and I infer that they draw no revenue from, Kowloong; the ground
there is worthless to them, and might prove to them a serious disadvantage if at some future time it brought them into collision, not strongly improbable, nor even remotely contingent, with other powers or with lawless Foreign Banditti.
Our occupation would also strengthen the hands of the Kowloong mandarin, and prevent a repetition
of