CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6] — Page 450

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18. Since writing the above, my attention has

been drawn to C.0.0.185 of 26th, July, 1895, forwarding copy of

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extract from War Office Letter of 11th. February, 1895, HongKong,

5/4754.I submit that that letter contains nothing on which

the Military Authorities can base a claim to Gun Club Hill

being within a Military Reserve.

The words other than those included in the

"broken green line on enclosed tracing* refer to then existing

Military Reserves within the broken green line, but do not

mean that all land within that line is a Military Reserve.

In all maps of Kowloon in possession of the

Director of Public Works supplied by the Military Authorities,

War Department property and War Department Reserves are in-

variably distinctively coloured and in none of these maps

does Gun Club Hill appear either as Military Property or Mili-

tary Reserve.

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