future period of extending the "Cantonments" - which suggestion
- was equally applicable to any Military Marine lot at Kowloon Forts or elsewhere.. Kennedy
5. His Excellency is further unable to conceive how such reference could be considered a satisfactory explanation of the transmission without his knowledge
of plans making a definite distinct proposition such as that advanced
by Colonel Lowell, because no
sanction had
ever
been given either by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, or for War, or by their Government to
any of Colonel Lowell's views. Consequently as the
latter's communication had elicited no opinion from it, it might be treated as having fallen through several years ago.
6. It is very probable that when the Major General's attention is drawn to the above particulars, he will at once see how impossible it was
for this Government to
divine
the details of a plan framed
in 1866 and transmitted without the knowledge of this Government merely because Colonel Gordon said something four years ago whence it might be inferred that if he were still here he might...
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