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PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

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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