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olbarsh the approval of Her Majesty's Government of the steps which were taken by him, during my temporary absence, in view of the disturbances at Canton in last September.
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The despatch under "In his reply continues as follows:- (M: Marsh's despatch of the 25th September, it is stated that not one of the present Police Stations in the Colony is capable of being successfully defended: if no great expense is involved, it might be well for the Surveyor-General, when examining their construction from a sanitary point of view, to consider whether they could not, at the same time, be made more defensible."
4.
I had already anticipated Your Lordships' suggestion in this matter. The Police Stations generally, and especially those in the villages on the island, and on the peninsula of Kowloon, remote from all support, and constantly liable to attack by armed bands of Chinese smugglers and pirates from the mainland, ought from the beginning to have been built on the model