CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6] — Page 13

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and are scattered about over

nearly two square

villages

miles

hamlet's here their families

where

have resided for generations, and earn their daily bread

available

by cultivating every iquare yard between the hills

which is suitable.

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rice fields,

garden ground. If there people

were driven from their holdings

No

mere money payment would

compensate them for having to

seck elsewhere, not only homes

but means

9.

タ

livelihood.

If however Her Majesty's Government should think such

step necessary

to meet

then

the

and be prepared.

expense of it, I would

suggest

that the whole

Peninsula chould bconverted

into a

Military and Naval Cantonment, from which all civilians should be excluded. So long

as there are civilians

there

residing so they must be subject to Civil Government; but

reserves.

if

the

for Naval and Military

purposes render the acquisition 斥

Kowloon valueless in arry

Commercial point of view, and the present Chinese residents are all to be dispossessed, there will then be nothing left-

which