PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
C. 587
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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propose for the conson:
of the Marquis of Salisbury
that Sir J. Walsham should
be instructed that H.M. "Sort"
would not view with
favour a line of railway
having its terminus so
near Hong Kong
as
Kowloon, and that though
they
would have no valid
grounds for officially opposing
such a
world
railway, they strongly object to the
terminus being fortified
for the reasons
already
fiven
to represent to the Zhmere Gests
Wenketters Teara
2. hapet
Swen in their
their previous
representations.
198
A copy of your letter "under reply was, by
Lord Knutsford's direction,
Communicated to the
Secretary of State for War
who desires that the grave
military objections to the
Erection of chinese fortification
in the neghbourhood of
Howloon may
be strongly
unpressed upon Lond
Salisbury. All approaches
Bending & Mr. Honkopes views, all approaches
to that harbour are
affectively defendal