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17.8.39
Col. Fool's. proposal
of
re abandonment
propose a road's
2 of the
of
The arrangements under which the Hong Kong
Government provide land for the military at Kau
Lung Tsai are set out in paragraph 4 of
Sir Andrew Caldecott's despatch at 16 on 53654/36.
Briefly the Colonial Government waived its claim
to $125,866 in cash from the War Department in
respect of the cost of resumptions and site
formation in transferring the Kau Lung Tsai area
to the military, and in return the War Department
agreed to construct in this area at their own
expense a series of roads of which the Colony
was to obtain the full possession and use so far
as these roads lay outside areas of actual
fortification vested in the War Department.
The War Office now reports that the
Colonial Government is prepared to agree to the
abandonment of two (but only two) of the proposed
roads, in which case the proportionate part of the
Colonial Government's claims which were set off
against road construction will naturally revive.
The