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bell be
the
Settlement might bery left to the Rady during employment of the troops in offensive operations, but the question,
having referme
Now paised, is one
to a state of hostilities with other lurspean powers, and against which it is the duty of H. M
14. M. Government to provide, to far as may practicable.
However powerful
Kary may
be
the British
be, the armaments that
could be maintained in the bhuna
himit, and as
Seas must have a himit,
the principal duties of the Spitro
Bould
would be to seek and attack the
enemy's forces
and to protect one
was left
commence, whatever form has
the
for the defence of Hong Kong bould be a positive deduction from the Available scaval force-
therefre
Lis.
Most important that Nay Rony should be provided with such
defences
as would pirtect the settlement, and its suchorage, from
insult, if not destruction, by a comparatively small force of the
and Ford Pammuce propostes
lucemy,
Function of
to provide for the construction such works, whenever friends may