Sprung up, endangering the peace of the Colony and the Chinese neighborhood & that some arrangement will have to be adopted which shall prevent it from becoming an intolerable nuisance.
Perhaps there might be a disposition to allow us to acquire it by the remission of an equivalent part of the indemnity to be paid by Canton in excess of what is due to the merchants for their losses at that place.
I shall feel much obliged by Y. E. Consulting with Admiral Sir H. Keppel and the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject.
F. W. Bruce
Hong Kong
15th F. O. 4220
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You Kong
370 4497 Hong
War Office
RECEIVED 4 MAY 1860.
3rd May 1860
With reference to my letter of the 20th Ultimo, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit to you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, the accompanying copy of a further despatch from Major General Sir C. J. van Straubenzee, relative to the occupation of Kowloon Peninsula.
I have the honor to be,
Your obedient Servant
F. Elliot Engr