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wide contiguous rural strip will be necessary:
effective that control must be exercised by an authority
working under the same supreme direction as do the town's
public health authorities.
Maintenance of urder.
The immediately preceding argument applies here also.
It is, however, pertinent to add that owing to British
control over nearby waters and to British police methods
on land, piracy and brigandage have been stamped out so
far as this Colony is concerned, much to the benefit of
neighbouring Chinese districts.
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Harbour control.
This would become impossible for the Colonial Government
were the peninsula which now forms this harbour's eastern
side, the shore-works and reclamations at Lai Chi Kok
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and Green Island to revert to China.
Wireless telegraphy.
Messrs. Cables & Wireless have stated convincingly
that they are unable to provide a completely reliable
wireless telegraph service unless they can obtain a site
at a distance from Hong Kong (vide correspondence ending
with the Secretary of State's confidential despatch of
21st August, 1936). The need for such a service is, of
course, pressing: a suitable site has been found in
the New Territories near Kam Tin.
Sea approaches to the Colony.
Were the leaged islands surrounding the Colony to
revert to China it would be practically impossible for
ships to reach Hong Kong harbour without passing through
Chinese waters, unless some special concession were to be
made in this connection. The effect would be to put the
whole trade of the Colony into the power of the Chinese