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Government House.
Hong-Kong, 16th.March, 1899.
With reference to Major-General Black's des-
patch No.223 of the 6th. August and to your reply thereto No.
285 of the 2nd.November last, I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed map showing the difference between the ori-
ginal plan of the Naval Yard Extension and that which Vice-
Admiral Sir E.H. Seymour now informs me has been finally ap-
2. The original scheme is indicated by the red
line, and the new scheme is delineated in blue. The dotted red
line marks the proposed line of Reclamation of the Eastern
Praya.
3.
General Black has already advanced the ob-
jections of the Colonial Government to the rounding off of
the Eastern extension of the Naval Yard, and I have myself ad-
dressed Vice-Admiral Sir R.H. Seymour on this point. It is un-
necessary to re-iterate those objections, but I trust that you
will see fit to make a further representation to the Admiralty
with a view of some satisfactory arrangement being arrived
at with the War Department whereby the Eastern end of the Ad-
The Right Honourable
miralty
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.