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because he had more than

more

once

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expressed to me the difficulty of getting the duties at Haanghong carried on with the existing Ganison, and consequently foresaw the impofaibility of conducting

those duties with similar duties added.

at Kowloon, in the event of the number of Thacpo

Choops being diminished

8.

Even

if the letter of existing instructions,

as altered early last

to comprise such

that

a

year, might be held

correspondence within

on which the Governor should first communicate with the General, it

nevertheless obviously my

intention

Avas

-

simply

to leave the Secretary of State to decide

the policy of putting forward then the claims of the Colony to

ground at

Kowloon, which in case

of the reduction

of the European Garrison to a wing of

one

clase

Regiment, would apparently to be required for Mailitary cocupation

Had I in such

.q.

to

wmenced

case comm

by a formal communication to the General of my intention to apply for

surrender of

the

ground,

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I would have

been forestalling the action of the Secutary

State, with whom it is clear from the

internal evidence of my

despatch

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meant to leave the initiative of whatever

advisable

regulations

proceding might be judged quad (and I certainly think that no

i sve should prevent a Governor from occasionally

leaving

such

complete

discretion to the

in the first instance.

Secretary of State in the