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With the town of Kowloon under British jurisdiction, efficient police administration should obviate the necessity of maintaining a considerable military force on the mainland solely for the protection of the works and stores there from the outbreak of an uncontrolled population. The growth of Kowloon is one of the several elements of the question that have materially changed since the Colonial Defence Committee last considered it ten years

ago.

4. The Committee would now press on the Government the desirability

of taking the action contemplated in the Foreign Office letter of the 9th December, 1895.

(Signed)

November 10, 1896.

M. NATHAN, Secretary,

Colonial Defence Committee.

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