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Colony, and cannot be dissociated from it,
190
With regard to the second argument, that the
troops here are in part maintained for the defence of Imper-
ial interests throughout the Far East; Apart from the fact
that those interests are most essentially the interests of
Hongkong, and no place benefits more than this Colony from
their maintenance, it must be remembered that the Imperial
Government maintains a strong garrison in the north at
Peking and Tisntein for the defence of the Legation etc.
and it is admissible to assume that in the event of a crisis
in South China any Imperial Forces would be as available
for the assistanos of Hongkong as the troops of Hongkong are
for the re-inforcement in time of need of the northern
garrison.
In point of fact the only occasion in the last
20 years in which a part of the Hongkong garrison, (745
officers and men), were employed beyond the Colony occurred
in the crisis of 1900 when the Legations were besieged.
That was a crisis affecting the interests and safety of
Hongkong equally with other British Settlements in the East
Moreover, in the event of war with China, as in 1900, it may
conceivably be in the best interests of the defence of
Hongkong for her troops to be transferred to a scene of
operations not in the immediate vicinity of the Colony.
The system adopted for the assessment of the sum
paid by the Colony for its defence, viz. 20% of its Gross
Revenue exclusive of Land Sales or other Extraordinary
Revenue, is however open to many objections.
(a) It is not (as will presently no shown) well
calculated to achieve the object in view, which in Mr.
Chamberlain's words was 'That the Imperial Government would
get full advantage from a prosperous state of the Colony
while
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