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no
39531
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sir,
319007
Goverment House,
Hongkong,
225 # April, 1901.
629
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Despatch No. 385 of the 7th. December,
1900, in which you referred to my Despatch No. 393 of
28th. August, 1900, in paragraph 5 of which I transit-
ted a copy of the report of a Joint Committee of Civil
and Military Officers upon land questions outstanding be--
tween this Goverment and the Military Authorities.
2.
It is to the transfer indicated in
the second paragraph of that report and to the effect
of the restrictions controlling that transfer on the
part of the Military Authorities, to which I specially
invite your attention.
3.
You are aware that the Hongkong and
Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, desire to construct a new
Dock at Hunghom to the Eastward of their present No. 1
Dock and have applied for an area which mounts to 692,640 square feet and includes the whole of Kowloon Dock Battery, which is War Department Land, a small portion of the adjoining Military Reserve, some Crown
foreshore and a considerable area now under water and
the property of the Crown.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
*B...
4.