CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3] — Page 12

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"It is generally urged here by the few Civil British residents, (who do not execed eight. hundred (800) in number, including men, women, and

children], that the position

of Hong Kong is analogous to that of Gibraltar, and that this important naval and -military station, and great... emporium of British trade, " is maintained chiefly for "Imperial rather than for local

It is further pointed

-objects.

out

"

out that the heads of the commercial houses, and

"other principal

owners

of the

vast amount of shipping and

other property which it is ma

proposed to protect, are, for

the most part, persons "resident in England and 'not at Hongkong. In fact,

there is no

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permanent

"British population here; and it is felt that there is no --

"

analogy

between this

"Imperial Station, with its __

local

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