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is still at this date with the heaviest
ships of his squadron at Nagasaki
Japan, where he is in telegraphie communication with Hongkong and "Singapore, and whence he van
best watch the movements of the
Russian Admiral and of his..
ships.
4.
We have at Hong Kong
the ironclad turret-ship "Wivern", and five gunboats, also four
torpedo boats; and, as I have
already reported, the Auxiliary Flotilla formed of the steam-
launches
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launches belonging to the Colonial Government is being rapidly armed and equipped. The new Forts to be constructed at the cost of the Colony, are in the hands of the Royal...
Engineers; and the
expected to
my
reply is anxiously telegram of April
147, asking when the heavy guns -
may
be
provided for those Forts
expected to arrive; also what is the decision of Her Majesty's Government with regard to
(a) The proposed direct telegraph to
Singapore,
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