CHAMBER
OF
COMMERCE
(INCORPORATERS LONDON
84-85,
KING WILLIAM STREST. KUM
Copy of Selegram.
Superintendent
RCC?
C. O.
0544
411
REGP 13 APR 85
5th April 1885.
Andent Hongkong.
To east Extension
Please deliver Chairman Chamber " Commerce London following from Hongkong Chamber :- Following resolution passed unanimously at Meeting "Legislative Council 1st Cipul =
That in opinion this Council there ought to be direct telegraphic "Communication leturen Honghong " and Singapore the nearest British " settlement, and that immediate steps "be taken to supplement defences of
Aonghong by obtaining with the least possible delay a flotilla of torpedo "launches fully equipped "" Resolution. ends. Urge Government support "Keswick."