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of the Peninsula
in the
very
heart
and all along
the
frontier as so
detrimental to the full
commercial
development of
Kowloon, that it would be
preferable
for
the Colony to
entirely dispense with the proposed
defence Works altogether and
consider that the undertaking
referred to in Colonial
Secretary's letter of the 25th of
June, 1887, over the extended
area in question, should only
hold good for a period not
exceeding two
years unless in
the meantime works shall
be in
progress
in connection
with the line of Defence.
run the remote risk of
invasion of the
territory
in
question.
11.
I have felt it my
12.
contemplated on conclusion it
duty to inform Major General
Barker that I can
only
consider
and would ask Your Lordship to
invite the Right Honourable the