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this Station, for the defence of HongKong. This scheme has been transmitted by General Sargent to the War Office, which may probably communicate with Your Lordship on the subject.

Briefly, Colonel Walker

proposes that the bulk

of

Troops and of the Military

the

Establishments should be removed from their present position to _ the small island in the harbour

called Ngong-shin Chau by the Chinese,

English

and

by the

Stonecutters.

"Island

should

"Island"; that the present Barracko and Military Buildings be, with few exceptions, given up

to the Colony for sale; and that the Colonial Government should borrow half a million sterling for the purpose of carrying

a

out

complete plan of defence; the loan to be guaranteed by the Imperial Government.

3.

In transmitting this scheme for my perusal, and for the expression of my views upon it, General Sargent observes that,

while

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