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the Troops could safely be removed to Causeway Bay,
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the free movement of Troops to all parts of the town and Island.
5. Commodore Church expressed himself as decidedly favourable to concentration
the Sanitary Condition of that locality would have to be examined into, and that such part of the foreshore in it as might be found to be obnoxious would have to be reclaimed and the land drained.
The Major General further expressed an opinion that a easy road Communication would have to be established from Causeway Bay to the Peak and the Hills with the sea level.
The roads, as Bowen road to facilitate the intermediate level, so as to be in regard to the Naval establishments, he was stating that he would prefer this to be carried out in Victoria. One objection he saw to removing to Kowloon was that the Dockyard, if there, would be more open to the force of an enemy than is that in Victoria, and that the presence of a battery in the Vicinity would in itself draw an enemy's fire on the Naval establishments.
The Commodore further added that