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Prayas, Store Houses, and Pond. He shows, I think quite conclusively, that if some such general plan for the development of the whole Kowloon were adopted in the first instance, before isolated Harbour works are undertaken, there is ample room;
but that the reservation, as recommended by Admiral Hope, of a block of 300 Acres on the South West Coast - the only approachable frontage - would frustrate the whole scheme, and practically be tantamount to reserving the whole Peninsula for military purposes as the remainder of it would be rendered entirely useless for mercantile or any other Colonial objects.
7. Of that, of course, I am well aware. If Her Majesty's Government should intend to maintain a much larger Force in China than heretofore, and should think it necessary to retain the whole Peninsula as a Military Settlement, Colonial considerations must yield to views of Imperial policy. But in such case, the Colony would not derive advantage whatever from the acquisition, beyond the substitution of...