PES
465
when Virs Battery
is converted into a
strong enclosed work, and taken in
Connection with the Ballery at Kowloon
East, that sufficient
measures will have bem taken for the protection of this south end of Kowloon peninsula, and that the Narth init, with its rice fields & ravines and its difficult slopes, may be left beyond the sphere of the defence.
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The existing parade will furnish Suitable site for thw Barracks for Yoo me. When their position has been
agrud upon it will be maiso.
mcessary
to
provide a defensible post for infantry on the northem side. This post night
take
Take the form of a crenelased wall, or
of two emall open works suitable for
200 men.
In
any case, the front should
be flanked by the fire of field guns, and
to best position for these would be found
on
Elgin or Obervatory Hill.
The cost would be as follows.
Howloon (ast 2-9inch gun emplace
jacement £
7.200 Armament 2–9 inch qus 4.
2-9inch 4.924
Kowloon West. Converting 3
emplacements for Jhich R.BL guno b 10 meh R.M.L
Armament 3-10 much guns.
Ger. en placemul 1-64 pr.
Gun carriage & platform in store. Fuld works on
(6-12pm.
Observatory Hill
R.18.L. guns in store)
8,944
10,755
..2, 333
900
35,056