with the Lance Defence of the Island that the Reservoir, which supplies the Town of " ictoria with water, is in an exposed bosition and might easily be distroyed by an enterprising enemy who had
succeeded in
landing
at Aberdeen.
his point is of great importance and if amy comprehensive cystem of defence is to be carried out, the Committee is of
opinion that a separate and independent Recevoir ought to form a portion of
Scheme.
2
the
Attached (sie enclosure B) is a memo :
in
the Principal Medical Officer the China Command. It is there proposed
that
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that the War Department land at Stanley should be improved by stopping
the
Cultivation of rice and by planting
on the slopes around. The Committee
hus
的
strongly in favour of these proposals. Stamlay
affords
an admirable situation for
a
Military Cantonment, and it would be disirable to improve the site in view of its being possibly required hereafter for that purpose.
Endrewvie C contains a itter from Colore Exoreman to His Excellency wo
Administrator, in which it is suggester
that the Hewal and
Military establishmen to
Fhould be transferred to a
large oper
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