CO129-568-5 War Department requirements for land at Kowloon for hospital 9-12-1937 - 3-3-1938 — Page 13

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L/S/G:88

861/35.

SECRET.

Government House,

Hong Kong.

yta December, 1937.

His reellency

sir,

I have the honour to request Your Txcellency's

assistance in a satter concerning the transfer of land

to the ar Department which originated during your

#dainistration of this Colony.

2. You will probably recollect that in agust,

1936, the Military authorities intimated that owing to

the prospective incresse in the Oarrison it would be

necessary to build a military hospital on the winland,

and there followed some correspondence and informs 1

discussion regarding the selection of a site for this

purpose. In April of this year a site was agreed upon,

as is shown in a letter from you dated 13th April, 1937,

and the General Officer Commanding the British Troops

in China's reply of 28th April, 1937, (which was

received after your departure from the Colony), copies

of which are emlosed. Subsequently the General

Officer Commanding was notified by letter that the site

had been reserved pending the decision of the War Office,

and the correspondence on this subject rests with his

acknowledgement of that letter.

3.

In the course of this correspondence there is

no mention of the teras on which the selected site would

be transferred, nor is there any such mention in

departmental records. Ordinarily, therefore, I should

Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.N.G., 0.3.5.,

CEYLOK.