Appendix No. 4.
SINGAPORE.
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(Table No. 2.)-WAR Garrison Required.
NEW HARBOUR.
Station.
Cavalry
Scouts
••
Artillery
Mount Siloso
..
No
Total.
Remarks.
100
100
120
Berlayer battery
100
Blakang Mati East
100
·
To be provided from Police Force.
2 batteries garrison Artillery, 200. 3 Companies Indian gunners, 255. Infantry, 145.
Tanjong Paggar
Fort Canning Fort Faber
Redoubts
68
Blakang Mati South
50
80
60
22
600
Infantry
Mount Serapong
100
Mount Imbeah
50
1 European regiment. 1,000.
1 Native Indian regiment, 1,000.
Batteries Blakang Mati Island
100
Fort Canning
200
Fort Faber..
200
Other redoubts and Fort Ful-
250
lerton
Berlayer battery
100
Reserve
800
Assisting Artillery
1,800 145
1,945
Say, 2,000,
Existing
100 Infantry and 268 Artillery will be required in addition if the roadstead is defended.
(Table No. 3.)-RETURN of Barrack Accommodation Existing and Proposed.
Situation.
Tanglin Barrack
Fort Canning
Blakang Mati East
Proposed
To be built in time of war..
Mount Siloso
Berlayer Point
Blakang Mati South
Mount Faber
No.
Nature of Vessel.
2
Gun-boats
..
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No.
Cost.
£
1,022
219
1,241
250
220
2,200
200
2,000
50
500
200
2,000
(Table No. 4.)-SEA Defences (Naval).
Armament.
Cost complete with Armament.
Crew.
Peace.
War.
£
38-ton gun Machine Field
1
Gun-boat or Colonial steamer..
8
Torpedo launches and fittings One machine gun..
for eight more
Remarks.
Remarks.
For defence of mine-fields.
For defence of Johore
Strait.
For defence of Johore Strait and mine-fields.
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Situation.
Passing traffic.
Inclosure 1 in No. 76.
Memorandum by Sir W. F. D. Jervois with reference to Providing for the Security of the Naval Establishment and Coaling Station at Singapore.
Preliminary Observations.
SINGAPORE is an island, in shape something like the Isle of Wight, 25 miles long and 14 miles in maximum width, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, where the Straits of Malacca debouch into the China Sea, and is separated from the mainland by a strait, averaging three- quarters of a-mile in width. The Straits of Malacca form one of the main ocean routes of the world. By this route passes the whole of the trade of the United Kingdom with China, the total of which, including exports and imports, amounted for the year 1871 to upwards of 24,000,0007., as well as a trade of the value of many millions sterling between India and China.
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