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I should be glad if Your Lordship would also mention to Mr Childers that on all questions of business which have been discussed since then between the Military Authorities and the local Government, such as the proposed villa-sites at the Kennedy Road, the insanitary state of certain places near the barracks, along the arrangements for the Military sanitarium, the mode of dealing with soldiers who may be accused of disorderly conduct in the streets, and some details connected with the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, the Military Authorities have thanked me for the prompt and cordial support they have received from the local Government. I am bound to add that the General has responded to all this by the steady support he has given me in the Executive Council and in many other ways.
So far, therefore, whatever strained relations might seem to have been manifest from the Colonial Secretary's letter of the 19th May, 1880, they were soon terminated and no longer exist.
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As regards the inspection of works at Kowloon, the Secretary of State for War is also under misconception for which I am probably to blame for the want of precision in my letter of the 19th of May, 1880.