COPY.
Enclosure 4.
Dock Extension at Kozloon East.
Your Excellency,
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REC
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Reg? | OCT 00
498
Head Quarters,
HongKong, 17th. April, 1900.
With reference to your let-
ter No.17-0 dated 3rd. April, 1900, I have the honour to
state that no definite date can at present be fixed for
the completion of the Lyemun Derences as the funds for
the service have not been yat provided.
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2. It would also be impossible
recommend to the War Office, the removal of the existing defences of HongKong Harbour, before the ne
works at Lyemun are completed.
3.I see, however, no objection to the HongKong Dock Company proceeding with the work of reclamation, as shown upon their plan, as soon as they can
sign the conveyance or the property, under the conditions
named in my letter of the 31st. March 1900, No.1811-5n, which
safeguard the interests of the Admiralty and War De-
partment in this matter,
4.I might also be able to mark a
portion of the hill at Kowloon East, which might be given' over at once to the Dock Company for excavation, which will
not interfere with the fighting power of the Battery, a clause being inserted in the Conveyance, defining the
limits for such a concession, and on the understanding
that the rest of the hill will be handed over by the War
Department when the Defences at Lyemun are completed.
I have etc.,
la Excellency,
The Governor of HongKong.
NWO
(ad) W.J.Gascoigne,
Major General, Commanding trocas
in China.
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