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Hong Kong 8/158

The General Officer Commanding the Troops in China

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Head Quarters, Hong Kong,

17th June, 1903.

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I have the honour to forward herewith papers in

connection with the valuation of the lands to be ox-

changed between the Colonial Government and the War

Department respectively, in accordance with the in-

structions conveyed in War Office letter, Hong Kong 8/

135 (I.G.F.1.), dated 13th June, 1902.

2.

It will be observed that the area applied for

at Devil's Peak now only includes the batteries and the

tactical points required for the defence of the batteries

from the land side. The area was reduced for two

reasons; firstly, on account of the high value set by

the Colony on all the low land contiguous to the shores

of the harbour; and secondly, because it gradually be-

came forced upon our notice that this land could not be

used for the location of troops owing to its extreme

unhealthiness, which could not be remedied without the

expenditure of large sums of money. In fact, the ground

outside the boundary now chosen is absolutely poisonous

to human beings.

3.

A large area has elsewhere been acquired in the

vicinity of Kowloon Peak, formerly called Nog Tau Kok,

which will answer all the purposes it was thought, in the

first instance, the land near Devil's Peak would fulfil.