CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939 — Page 39

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Wt. 16318-94 15,000 7/38 T.S. 695 Wt. 26563-2 20,000 10/38 T.S. 695

53654/39. Hong Kong.

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Mr. Galsworthy 25.2.39.

Mr. Calder 27.2

Mr. Cowell

Mr. A. J. Dawe.

Sir H. Moore.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

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HONG KONG.

NO.

CONFIDENTIAL

GOVERNOR.

FURTHER ACTION.

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Sir,

Downing street,

February, 1939.

- 3 MAR 1939

I have etc. to acknowledge

the receipt of your confidential

(2) despatch of the 30th January

on the subject of the possibility

of the removal of the barracks and

other buildings occupied by the

infantry buttalion stationed in the

central district of Victoria and

on Victoria Peak from their present

site to another less valuable site

on the island of Hong Kong away from

the centre of the city.

2.

As I understand it, the

proposal is that the Military

Authorities should surrender the

site and buildings which they

Occupy