4
7
er
Officers
on this station, that it
would be worse than useless.
sense
of
(as leading to a false -security), to crest fresh Defence
are
armed with Ordnance of the
Works here, unless they
latest and most approved
-pattern, capable of resisting the
attack of the heaviest modern
artillery.
It
was
perceived from
the Parliamentary Papers that it
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originally proposed that
the very insufficient.
sum
of
-only £87300 should be provided
for
}
new
for the armament of the Forts at Honghong; and the
C
Unofficial Members of the Colonial Legislature gave
energetic expression to the dissatisfaction generally felt on
that, from
this point. However, I drew - attention to the fact that, the latest Parliamentary tapers, it appears that this question had | been re-considered by the Military, authorities in England; that the
Jin
proposed for the new-
armament at HongKong had
been