(a) The frontier at Boundary Street runs through a heavily built- up area; so that retrocession 'simpliciter' would entail a situation almost analogous, for example, to the City of Westminster remaining British with with Chelsea going over to an alien administration;
(b) there are numerous factories in the Kowloon City area which are
in the New Territories;
(c) so is the very prosperous residential suburb of Kowloon Tong;
(a) besides the Shing Mun reservoir and the projected waterworks development at Tai Lam Chung, there is the airfield at Kai Tak and the only possible future airfield sites (including the one now under construction at Ping Shan about which there is some opposition in Chungking);
(e) the Texaco Company has spent large amounts on the oil storage installation at Tsun Wan (but it is reported badly damaged by bombing);
(1) the Hong Kong Brewery has a valuable site with expensive machinery further along the Castle Peak road;
(g) there are numerous large private residences scattered about the Territories, notably at Taipo, Fanling and Castle Peak;
(h) the Orphanage on the sea coast between Shatin and Taipo perhaps deserves special mention; also, from a different angle, the large aggregation of Buddhist establishments which found sanctuary on the island of Lantao after being persecuted in South China;
i) Government buildings include a number of police stations, the Land Office etc. at Taipo with two official residences nearby, and the Governor's private house "Fanling Lodge";
(j) The Fanling Courses of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club were laid out at considerable expense, with two substantial club-houses; Jockey Club also has a training course and stables in this locality.
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7. If the termination of the Lease before its expiration date in 1997, with proper compensatory provision in the above cases, becomes inevitable ("by negotiation" as Chungking keeps saying: namely by an edict of the United Nations) I would venture to suggest that a possible
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