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11. Description of coterminous foreign territory, in respect to-

(a) Frontier topography;

(b) Military resources;

(c) Railway system, and facilities afforded thereby for massing a

hostile force at any point of the frontier line.

N.B. There are only a few colonies to which all the foregoing items apply But there is no colony to which some of the items are not applicable.

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Report of the Colonel Commanding

Royal Engineer on Colonial Defensive Organization.

Paragraph 10.

There are no

defensive works

either on the Island of Hong.

Kong or at How loon.

It is in contemplation, however, to provide a Torpedo or Submarine Mining Establishment at North point, on the land for that purpose being ceded by the Colonial Government. Paragraph !!.

I examined the ground at Kowloon (on 16th Instant), the

S&S 4012)

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