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Government House.
Hong-Kong, 17th. June, 1898.
With reference to your telegram of the 27th.
ultimo as to the handing over to the War Department the site
for barracks at Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, acknowledged in my des-
patch of the 10th, instant,No.170, I have the honour to report
that although the War Office is anxious to carry out the long
contemplated scheme of housing the troops on this site, and
although the need of doing so is accentuated by the recent
increase of the Garrison, and made necessary by the transfer
of the North Barracks for the purpose of adding to the Naval
Dockyard, the views of the Military and Colonial Authorities
as to the price to be paid for the site are so divergent that
this matter cannot be settled locally.
As Officer Administering the Government, I feel
compelled to hold the scales evenly between these parties, and
in that view think it best to forward for your consideration
Artig
Suretary
Memoranda on the subject from the Colonial Officers connected
with the transfer of land, leaving the Military aspect of the
question to be brought to your notice by the Secretary of
State for War who will doubtless communicate with you on the
subject.
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.
BC.
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