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remain and more than sufficient the Force ordinarily stationed in China. He is not proposed that there costly establishments should be removed to Kowloon; Admiral Hope points out the inexpediency of such a step; and suggests that as regards the naval Establishments a Coal Store only should eventually be moved there from this Island. If to the site for this store, ground were added a Naval Hospital and perhaps also for a Sanatorium for the Military during the South west Monsoon, I should say that both Services had been liberally provided for. It is therefore impossible to conceive for what object an area such as recommended by Admiral Hope should be reserved, monopolizing as it does over 300 acres of the most valuable land, One and a quarter miles of water frontage,- all the deep water, and literally, with the exception of about 400 yards, every yard of available Coast in the entire peninsula.
5. With the exception of the site for the proposed Coal depot neither Naval nor Military Services...