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arrangement as to Military land's at Kowloon could be easily arrived at, among which may be mentioned the grant of a site for a Hospital and Barracks for Asiatic Troops.
6. The Military Authorities have also applied recently for considerable cessions of Colonial property for Barracks at Lyemun and for Artillery Barracks above Victoria Battery.
I need scarcely advert to the question of the junction of Eastern and Western Harbours which has formed the subject of correspondence since 1883, and upon which Sir G. William Des Voeux addressed Your Lordship in his despatch No11 of 15th January, 1889.
There are also not a few pieces of ground belonging to the War Department, as for instance the