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into the low cheap class of buildings that

the speculators

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run

up for Chinese

lodging houses. They are between our

· magarines,

barracks, close to our hospitals, arsenal, Commissariat,

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married-quarters, and dockyard, giving

ocular, auricular and nasal demonstration

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how senfitted they.

dre

for the

neighbourhood of Europeans.

Should there be

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the

consequence

any outbreak of disease,

to the soldiers would.

be disastrous; and should there be any

question between the Chinese and

"English Governments, the presence of

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such

such a number of Chinamen in the

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midst of our Troops would be

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inconvenient.

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I have referred in this

manner to the past with the object of

urging the adoption of measures to prevent the possibility of similar

negligence and want of foresight.

the

future.

I would now

in

venture, with

great respect, to submit that Your - Lordship should move the War Office to prepare a fuil and final plan for the defences of Hongkong; and that such plan should be transmitted by Her Majesty's