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· Colonial Government declining
· to adopt the suggestions therein made, that terms securing the -rights of the War Department __ should be inserted in leases
Contracts of purchasers of the land surrounding the War Department Property at. Howloong,
and
1 beg to recommend
that the Colonial Government.
on the
-may receive instructions on,
subject,
as it cannot but lead
to future embarrassment if
: Purchasers or Lessees
are allowed
to conclude contracts without_
being made aware of the rights which the War Department
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at any time find it necessary to
enforce .
I have 40.
(signed) Prancis Colborne,
Major-General, Commanding troops, China
and Straits Settlements.
(True Copy)
(signed) A. Bassano, Colonel,
Assistant Military Seretary.
(True Copies)
Imit
Acting Colonial Secretary