CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 499

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Head Quarter Office,

HongKong, 31st.March, 1900.

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Your Excellency,

annexed

In reply to the Colonial

Secretary's letter No.433 of 20th.March 1900, I have the honour to inform you that according to instructions that I have received from the War Department, the land at Kow- loon Dock Battery will not be required for Military pur- poses when that Battery has been replaced by the arma- ment to be mounted in the new positions at Devil's Peak.

2.There will then be no obstacle

to the surrender of the land to the Colony for the scheme of Dock Extension contemplated, on the conditions speci- fied in the attached paper marked A.

I have etc.

(sd) W. J. Gascoigne,

Major-General.

Commanding troops in China.

His Excellency,

The Governor,

HongKong.