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: the calamity of August 1854 above alluded to.
3. Regarding the Extent of land which it would be expedient to occupy. I am aware that the Military Officers who gave their Opinions in the correspondence of last year laid great stress, as was their duty, on the "acquisition in a strategic point of view.
But the Home Government has so repeatedly and so decidedly laid it down that Hongkong must look to the navy for protection that
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I have long ceased to pay much attention to projects for Forts and Batteries and large defensive schemes propounded by Engineer Officers. General Shauzb[en]z asks only for a small tract (letter to Lord Elgin, March 1858) and Lord Malmesbury (Despatch 2nd June, 1858) specifies Kowloong point and Stone cutter's island.
I am of opinion that a fortified wall running along by the pencil mark made in the chart attached