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protected by a military Force
detached for that
purpose.
The Starbour of Victoria of Hong Kong Road which is teeming
with contractors of War, i.e. Coal Store Framment, Docks and Emmission Slips crossed like the Starbour at Singapore be deferred at all hazards.
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I visited the site
of proposed Forts in Company with the Major General Commanding and the Officer Commanding Royal Engineers, was after maturely considering the I am of opinion that there is nothing to prevent an enterprising
Commander from entering
the
Starbour
from the West between Stone Cutters and
Green Island
an incalculable
and destroying amount of property.
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I therefore strongly urge
that, in addition to the
present proposed forts, another should be built on Kellet's Bank in order to be garrisoned at low water spring times available with heavy Armament guns. Then with lines of Torpedoes from this Fort to Green and Stone Cutters Islands, with another line of Torpedoes in the Sulphur Channel, Hong Kong Harbour would be properly defended at either
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