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the defferent treps of
But Commander Numary appears to lose of the fact that the Cavalry and
other Corps composing
island of Hongthong by the harrow roadstead Sach
forms the harbour
Victoria . Communication
between Hongkong and Kowloon is incessant
Au
army
in the Fried.
Ln
Right and Infantry and army
on active
and as Kowloon is
Contiguous
to the Chinese
Service, are all united under the expreme
Control of one Commander-in-
chief.
6. This leads me to state my principal obfection
to Commander Numan's prespoal.
that having regard to local
It is this - that
Conditions in
Hongkong to withdraw the
Water Police from the control of the Captain Superintendent
Police, and place that 7 branch of the Love under a separate
Department, would weaken the hands of the Executive Police to a dangerons degree, and
would set up a dual control and responsibility
where in the interests
of efficiency thene
7. In the
district of
should be only one.
the first place the large and popalons
of Kontoon is
separated from the
frontier, persons who have Committed crimes.
on tonything not infrequently suck Ириден
in howtoon with a view to
their escape
temporary
m
making
across the border into Chinese
territory. On the other hand plots
are
hatcher
Raido
on the Chinese mainland for upon Hongkong with the object of Robbery.
These facto induce a constant and close co-operation between the land and water Police, and one of the first steps
that is taken when a crime
is Committed
on wither side of the water is to apprize the Water Police in order that they maybe a
the alert to prevent the excape of the
Aumonals across the harbour, proal of the
furisdiction
:sdiction of the tolong by boat or steamer.
Again