affects Admiralty Interests only, and are recommended by
the Commander-in-Chief, I am prepared to submit the terms,
as revised, to the Secretary of State for War, for his
decision.
4. Before doing so, however, I shall
be glad if you will kindly inform me whether the Hongkong
and Whampoa Dock Company accept the terms as now proposed,
and, if so, to cause the attached copy of them to be signed
by the Company as accepted, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of State for War, and returned to me.
5. Pending further instructions from
the home authorities, it must be clearly understood that
the continued occupation of the War Department land by the
Company is subject to the original terms approved.
I have &c.,
(sd). W.J.Gascoigne.
Major General,
Commanding Troops in China.
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