fening the damn cx
previously applied for by the foverner in his
in that letter for the
proposed Local Naval
Defence Force at Hughing.
2. Lord Derby
trust
that there will be no
further min
delay in dealing with
this matter.
On receipt
of your letter above referred to in donnary last, his Lordship presumed that this Admiralty would find you
transmit
ал
Forr
to the War Office, as it was received, the
Naval
report which they had been called for from this Commander in Chief in China, and that this
of the armament question would then be
forwarded to zen
last
24th &
forthwith decided;
scow
but
it was appears from ther
A
Enclosed letter from ther
Admiralty, that that
report
was
forwarded
for hack
from Hughing at the and
i
of March last, ayda
Therefore have
lips
four months ago
t
received
3. Lord Hartington is aware that the fovernor
Kaus
of Hongkong has very urgenth pressed
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the
attention of W. M. for the general question of this defence of the Colony, as well as this particular proposal to a local Naval Defence Force, and present state of affairs in China it is unfortunate
and in ther
that