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because he had more than
more
once
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expressed to me the difficulty of getting the duties at Haanghong carried on with the existing Ganison, and consequently foresaw the impofaibility of conducting
those duties with similar duties added.
at Kowloon, in the event of the number of Thacpo
Choops being diminished
8.
Even
if the letter of existing instructions,
as altered early last
to comprise such
that
a
year, might be held
correspondence within
on which the Governor should first communicate with the General, it
nevertheless obviously my
intention
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simply
to leave the Secretary of State to decide
the policy of putting forward then the claims of the Colony to
ground at
Kowloon, which in case
of the reduction
of the European Garrison to a wing of
one
clase
Regiment, would apparently to be required for Mailitary cocupation
Had I in such
.q.
to
wmenced
case comm
by a formal communication to the General of my intention to apply for
surrender of
the
ground,
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I would have
been forestalling the action of the Secutary
State, with whom it is clear from the
internal evidence of my
despatch
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meant to leave the initiative of whatever
advisable
regulations
proceding might be judged quad (and I certainly think that no
i sve should prevent a Governor from occasionally
leaving
such
complete
discretion to the
in the first instance.
Secretary of State in the