CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904 — Page 304

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with a concurrent funding

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Chinese inhabitants

of ensuring that the Government of the Colony

shall be in the hands of a trained Administrator

in the Governor's absence, will, Mr Lyttelton

thinks, be obvious to the Army Council; and

within the last few years the arguments in

favour of such an arrangement have been

strengthened by the fact that the extension

of the boundaries of the Colony so as to include

a large extent of additional territory on the

mainland has further removed it from the

category of a fortress.

5. Your letter refers to the fact that

some years ago the Colonial Secretary and not

the General Officer Commanding the troops administered

the government of Hong Kong in the

absence of the governor:

whatever reasons

could then be adduced in favour of a civilian

administrator there are far stronger grounds

at the present time. The Army Council will

also note that the arguments advanced in the

letter under reply would support the appointment

of a military governor in Hong Kong as

in