12.

13

GO

6. As

regards

the question of

compensation for the present

chinese proprietors or reupiers

17 Kowloon, and

on

upon

which I

have already reported in another despatch, the war department and the Admiralty would of Course provide the compensations awarded to the Chinese disposses from the area actually received for Military and naval purposes. The Colonial Government would probably then redeem from

A

what was left sites

left sites for dew European villes, and Police Stations in the neighbourhood

Military Reserves, and

the

7 the

as

F

the

regards the remainder Peninsula at the back, and

is

which is fitted only for chinese villages and agriculture, as for as the Colonial bovernment concerned there would be no intention to disturb the present. propriators and occupiers, who would be given Mitish titles

as

my

Despatch

explained in 1.82 of 30th April lack.

7

for

the

It would them remain

Military Authorities to

far

determine how

such

an

arrangement, in the event of it's resulting in Kowloon being

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