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Removal of the tops from the centre of the
Lomin
This was strongly recommended
by the Sanitary Commission in 1887 (1880?),
MINUTE PAPER.
auson; and the European community
does not offer such an occasion to
make Ewan satisfy
the General
I have
Lamson
who was up to that time
considered the most liberal-minded General
they soon had in Hong Kong was a letter
(Appendix 9 page 49) strongly opposing the
idea altogether, and urging that the
Military
authorities would never listen
The arguments he uses
are
open to many objections. He relies on the proximity of the troops by way
of protection against the thieves, as he
suffered. But the ideas embodied
in his letter
are those likely to be prevalent
at the War Office.
I think that we had better tell the
War Office that we do not wish to
press the reclamation.
nor any
scheme on
another; but that their