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Assistant Adjutant General (A) minuted "Telegraphic enquiry has
been institutei."
After a delay of 12 months a reply was at last
received from the War Office and on the 21st March 1900 the
General Officer Commanding writes "According to instructions that I have received from the War Department, the land at Kowloon Dock Battery will not be required for military purposes when that Battery has been replaced by the armament to be mounted in the
new positions at Devil's Peak" and submits E conditions on which
the War Office is prepared to transfer the land.
Replying to an enquiry from the Governor on the Fri
April 1900, General Gascoigne says, "No definite date can at
present be fixed for the completion of the Lyemun Defences, as
the funds for the service have not yet been provided. It would
also be impossible for me to recommend to the War Office the
removal of the existing defences of HongKong Harbour, before the
new works at Lyemun are completed. I see, however, no objection
to the Hongkong Cock Company proceeding with the work of reclama-
tion, as shewn upon their plan, as soon as they can sign the
conveyance of the property under the conditions named in my
letter of the 91st March 1900
I might also be able to
mark a portion of the hill at Kowloon East which might be given
over at once to the Dock Company for excavation."
On the 2nd May 1900 Mr.Gillies again presses for a
reply and writes "The calls for more extensive iccking facilities
to accommodate the large class of vessels ouilding for the
Pacific trade are being prominently orought to the notice of my
Directors and they greatly fear that unless the construction of
another
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