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In any further communica-
tion on this subject, please quote
D.M. 9834/7284
and address letter to-
Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall,
London, S.W.
sir,
Admiralty,
21 July 1904
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reference to your letter of the 27th
June 1904, No: 21828/1904, enclosing a Memorandum of
Transfer by the Colonial Government of Hong Kong to the
Admiralty of certain land at Long Harbour, Mirs Bay;
am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
to acquaint you for the information of the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, that they desire to make the fol-
lowing remarks thereon.
2. Prior to the receipt of your letter, the Commander-in-Chief had forwarded a Draft terms of possession
which he stated set out the conditions on which the
Colonial Government would be prepared to hand over the land in question in exchange for the rights possessed by
the Admiralty over the Naval Range at Kowloon, and in full satisfaction of whatever property the Admiralty may
possess on that Range in the shape of Pavilion butts etc.,
in connection with it, all of which were to be taken over
with the Range by the Colonial Government.
The
3.
In a further communication, the Commander-
in-Chief reports that he has been informed by the Colonial
Authorities that the use of the Naval Range at Kowloon
would not be interfered with until the new Ranges near
Kowloon City had been prepared.
4. In the "terms of possession" above referred
to, the land was to be held by my Lords until it should
Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
be
L.P.-No. 8.