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"It is generally urged here by the few Civil British residents, (who do not execed eight. hundred (800) in number, including men, women, and
children], that the position
of Hong Kong is analogous to that of Gibraltar, and that this important naval and -military station, and great... emporium of British trade, " is maintained chiefly for "Imperial rather than for local
It is further pointed
-objects.
out
"
out that the heads of the commercial houses, and
"other principal
owners
of the
vast amount of shipping and
other property which it is ma
proposed to protect, are, for
the most part, persons "resident in England and 'not at Hongkong. In fact,
there is no
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permanent
"British population here; and it is felt that there is no --
"
analogy
between this
"Imperial Station, with its __
local
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