CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
3 ch.
C.O. 11134
193
Re: C APR 35
Government House,
Hongkong. 7th. March, 1905.
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Sir,
Referring to your Despatch No. 287 dated the
30th. September, 1904, transmitting for my information copies of correspondence with the War Office in which it was decided that a special Officer should be sent here to endeavour in consultation with myself and the local Military Authorities to arrive at some settlement of the questions at issue with regard to Military Lands in the Colony, and to your telegram of the 19th. December inform- ing me that Colonel J. R. Lewis was the Officer selected, I have now the honour to transmit six copies of a Memorandum in which Colonel Lewis, after discussing the matter with the late and pre- sent Commanding Royal Engineers and the General Officer Commanding and with the Acting Director of Public Works, the Colonial Secre- tary and myself and after examining the records that were made available to him in the Military and Colonial Offices, has sub- mitted a complete list of all the lands over which the War Depart- ment has claimed rights, explaining the status of each of them and the manner in which it is recommended that this status should be confirmed or modified, together with detailed explanations of the methods of dealing with those sites that have been the subject of dispute. Appended to the Memorandum is a statement of the Military Lands Account as it will stand when the proposals are accepted.
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The Memorandum concedes the principle for
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELION, K.C., M.P.,
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which this Government has always contended that the reservation of
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