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but lightly taxed - the Police and Lighting Rates, with Water Rate in prospect the only taxes to which they are subject.
At the same time it is proper to point out that the enforcement of this contribution amounts in effect to making the Residents in a British Colony pay for the protection of foreign and rival interests and of the numerous nationalities there represented.
The natural tendency would be to drive people from Hongkong where they are taxed to Shaughai and other places where they are not, and cannot be, taxed.
5. Let Hongkong be put under a purely Military Government, like Gibraltar, to which it bears a closer resemblance than to any other British Colony; politically it is of less, but commercially of far greater importance than Gibraltar, but the circumstances of the two places have similarities and under a military regime the troops would be made locally efficient to a certain
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