It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the above letters and numbers may be quoted, and the Letter addressed as follows:-
Secretary of the Admiralty,
"Whitehall,
London"
W.L. Brauch."
3333
33557/2966
GPT
Admiralty, S.W.,
17th October 1901.
36378 IPED Rent 18 OCT 01
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Sir,
With reference to your letters of the 14th June and 22nd August 1901, transmitting a copy of despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong proposing that the Naval Yard at Victoria should be transferred to Kowloon, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that after full consideration, and after receiving the report of the Commander in Chief of the China Station on the subject, Their Lordships are unable to concur in the proposal thus made to them by the Colonial Government to exchange the premises now occupied by the Naval Yard in the City of Victoria for another site on the Kowloon Peninsula for the following, among other reasons:-
(a) The proposed new site at Kowloon would be in a far less favourable strategical position than the present site at Victoria. It is accessible to attack from land and is quite inadequately fortified against such an attack.
(b) The proposed transfer would inevitably involve delay in the establishment of a properly equipped Naval Dockyard on the China Station. The scheme for the Extension Works now under construction at Hong Kong has only been decided upon and the Contract entered into after...
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It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the above letters and numbers may be quoted, and the Letter addressed as follows:-
fe Secretary of the Admiralty,
"Whitehall,
W.L.
Brauch."
"London" 3333
33557/2966
GPT
Admiralty, S.W.,
179
October
70
190 1.
36378 IPED Rent 18 OCT 01
Gov
No.19347/1901 No.147/1901
The
sir,
With reference to your letters of the 14th June and 22nd August 1901, transmitting a copy of despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong proposing that the Naval
Yard at Victoria should be transferred to Kowloon, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you for the information of the Secretary of State
for the Colonies that after full consideration, and after receiving the report of the Commander in Chief of the China
Station on the subject, Their Lordships are unable to
concur in the proposal thus made to them by the Colonial Government to exchange the premises now occupied by the Naval Yard in the City of Victoria for another site on the Kowloon Peninsula for the following, among other reasons:-
(a) The proposed new site at Kowloon would be in a
far less favourable strategical position than the present site at Victoria. It is accessible to attack from land
and is quite inadequately fortified against such an attack.
(b) The proposed transfer would inevitably involve delay in the establishment of a properly equipped Naval
Dockyard on the China Station. The scheme for the
Extension Works now under construction at Hong Kong has only been decided upon and the Contract entered into after
Under Secretary of State,
long
No. 9
COLONIAL OFFICE,
Whitehall, S..
2 G & S 2371 [834] 20,000 11/009
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