"Be that as it may, even though the mountain had been set aside by the government for use as a cemetery, if the government ever chose to appropriate the land for public use, the Chinese community would have been hard pressed to oppose it legally," says Lau Boon Kuan, head of the Malaccan Alumni Association of Taiwan Universities and Colleges, describing the concerns many people had at the time.
「然而，雖然三保山經政府立案，確定作墓園用途，但如果政府援引土地徵用法令作為公共建設，華社於法理上就難以抗拒」，麻六甲留台同學會會長劉文權說出當時人們心頭的疑慮。