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Extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral James Hope, C. B., Commander-in-Chief, to the Secretary of the Admiralty dated the 22nd May 1860.

(Signed) J. M. M. Ashby, Secretary

I have no hesitation in stating to their Lordships that: notwithstanding the recent acquisition of the Kowloon Peninsula I do not think it desirable to transfer the Dockyard to that side, for which my reasons are as follows.

1st As a matter of defence I consider it a sound principle and one not lightly to be departed from, that all the Public Establishments should as at present be

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Extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral James Hope, C. B., Commander-in-Chief, to the Secretary of the Admiralty dated the 22nd May 1860. (Signed) J. M. M. Ashby, Secretary I have no hesitation in stating to their Lordships that: notwithstanding the recent acquisition of the Kowloon Peninsula I do not think it desirable to transfer the Dockyard to that side, for which my reasons are as follows. 1st As a matter of defence I consider it a sound principle and one not lightly to be departed from, that all the Public Establishments should as at present be
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Extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral James Hope, C. B., Commander-in-

Chief, to the Secretary of the Admiralty

dated the 22nd May

180c..

(Signed) J. M. M. Ashby,

Secretary

1

I have

no hesitation in stating

to their Lordships that: notwithstanding

the recent acquisition of the Kowloon

Peninsula I do not think it desirable

to

transfer the Dockyard to that side, for

which

my

reasons are as

follows..

fst

As a matter of defence I consider

it a sound principle and one not lightly

to be departed from, that all the Public Establishments should as at present

be

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