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long consideration and protracted negotiations with the Colonial Office and War Office, and to abandon this scheme
would mean the postponing, for an indefinite period, of the provision of an efficient equipment for our Naval Base in
the Far East.
(c) The Kowloon site would involve an immense amount
of dredging in order to provide the requisite Man-of-War
anchorage etc., the probability being that the dredging
would have to be more or less continuous in order to maintain
the required depths. Moreover the anchorage off the
proposed site is entirely open to the West, which, from the
experience of the Typhoon in November last, is a serious
objection.
(a)
Almost the entire gain in the exchange would
accrue to the Colony and a great and unanticipated increase
of cost thrown upon the British taxpayer.
(e)
The water supply at Kowloon is, at present,
quite insufficient.
I am to return the original enclosures to the Governor's despatches as requested.
I am,
Sir.
Your obedient Servant,
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