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from the Commanding Royal Engineer, from which it appears that the measures had received
the concurrence of the General
and under these circumstances the Secretary of State for War will not long withhold his approval.
I am, however, to observe that
It should be clearly understood
that the site of the South West point of Kowloon Peninsula taken given up to the Ordnance Department without compensation, if at any future time it is required for constructing a battery thereon.
B. The plans are
returned herewith.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
E. W. E. Raafurguard (?)
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