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Peninsula of Kowloon, when "that line of defence has been " corupted, and when the " garrison of the Colony is of a strength sufficient for holding "it.
But the project now submitted to the Adjutant General, Plan J., goes far beyond any con cession that Your Lordship can advise Elo to asscut to. It was in the · first instance stated by the Military authorities that this advanced line of defence should consist of eight works of an inexpensive type, costing (with the necessary scarping, cutting away of the ground in front of and on the flanks of the works) £10,000. These Works were situate on the tops of bare hillocks and would not seriously interfere with graves, houses, or private property. The present scheme involves the grant of a parallelogram of land along the whole length of the Northern Boundary