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- great city while troops are parading across its most teeming thoroughfare could ever have been gratuitously sanctioned by Her Majesty's Secretary of State.
4.
There is no doubt that the Military Authorities have every right to parade on the Cricket ground, but there is equally little doubt that they have no right whatsoever to extend their parades across Queen's Road.
5.
As the proper Military Parade Ground on the opposite side of the way is longer than the Cricket ground by about 100 feet, and as it will never be possible to throw the two into one by abolishing the road between them or to exercise troops across the latter, the value of the Cricket field as a second place of parade is reduced to nil and the advantage to the Military Authorities therefore of their right of exercise upon it, to say the least, is problematical. How little is the practical value of this right may from a Military point of view be inferred from the fact that soldiers have not been paraded on the ground more than a dozen times during the last quarter of a century.
6.
As the Garrison of Hongkong has been so very greatly reduced since 1851 and its wants proportionately.
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- great city while troops are parading :across its most teeming thoroughfare could ever have been gratuitously sanctioned by Ster Majesty's Secretary of State.
4.
There is no
doubt that the
on the Cricket.
Military Authorities have every- right to parade ground, but there is equally little
right.
doubt that they have no
whatsoever to extend their parades across Queen's Road.
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As the proper Military. Parade Ground on the opposite side of the way is longer than the Cricket ground by about 100 feet, and as it will never be possible to throw _
the two into one
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by abolishing the road
between them or to exercise troops
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the latter, the value of the Cricket field as a second place of parade is reduced to nil and the advantage
to the Military Authorities therefore of their right of exercise upon it, to say the least is problematical. How little is the practical value of this right -
may
from a Military point of view be inferred from the fast that soldiers have not been paraded on the ground
more than a dozen times during
last quarter of a century.
6.
the
As the Garrison of Hongkong
has been so very greatly reduced since 1851 and its wants proportionately.
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