18
19
11
and are scattered about over
nearly two square
villages
miles
hamlet's here their families
where
have resided for generations, and earn their daily bread
available
by cultivating every iquare yard between the hills
which is suitable.
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rice fields,
garden ground. If there people
were driven from their holdings
No
mere money payment would
compensate them for having to
seck elsewhere, not only homes
but means
9.
タ
livelihood.
If however Her Majesty's Government should think such
step necessary
to meet
then
the
and be prepared.
expense of it, I would
suggest
that the whole
Peninsula chould bconverted
into a
Military and Naval Cantonment, from which all civilians should be excluded. So long
as there are civilians
there
residing so they must be subject to Civil Government; but
reserves.
if
the
for Naval and Military
purposes render the acquisition 斥
Kowloon valueless in arry
Commercial point of view, and the present Chinese residents are all to be dispossessed, there will then be nothing left-
which