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explanation, to a

letter written.

by Colouch Moody in 1863 which

merely

terms

alluded

sin

vague general , amongst other topics, to the

possible expediency at some future period of extending the cantonments,

which suggestion

applicable to

was equally Military Marine

lot at Kowloon,

elsewhere.

any Kowloon, Stanley

5 His Excellency is

further unable to comprehend

reference

could

be

satisfactory explana=

how such

considered

g

the hausmissin,

withinur

- tion

his privity, of plans makking

distinct proposition such

They

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that advanced by Colonel Lovell, because sanction had ever

been given by either the decretary

State

har

for

the Colomers,

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for

or by this Government, to my

of Colonel Moody's views, consequently

as

the latter's communication had

elicited

opinion from any one,

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it might be treated

as

having

fallen through several years aps.

6. It is

very

probable

that when the Major General's

attention is drawn to the above

particulars he will at

ace

Jakker

how impossible it was for this

Government to divine the details

in 1866 and transioncitted

tracion

of a plan framed

without the

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