and is not for advanced even now, in March and April it was considerably
I do not think that the
and
jess so, strangers that
got
into the cart in those
in-
month's could have acquired any
formation that they could not have
obtained equally from the su
well
from
boats ar
the surrounding ground
or roads
complete, &
in the neighbourhood of
the Short and
open
to the public.
to the party
of
With
regard
Japanese young officers who got into
Serapong, as the two 8 inch guns for that part
were mounted and
am inclined to think that
guns
As
very
are
285
visible
the works, the batteries
and
and
guns
to
any
Onahor
without
intering
more secrecy
and I do not believe that
can be secured at Singapore, unless the
powers
exist
of preventing the close approach of strangers. In the ease
of Fort Serapong, where two 8 inch guns are mounted, the ground close to the fort is private property,
in rear
and
of
any one from that ground into the Fort, and can
easily
see
the
guns
mounted there. Fort Serapong
at a distance and the
visible
from
the
8 inch
guns
mounted in it
can
easily
be seen
from
the examination
of
the
guns
mounted there,
young officers,
the Fort and
The Japanese by would rather tend to
of
the roads,
increase their respect for
the
for
defences
of the place.
have served at Portsmouth,
Malta, Gibraltar and Bermuda, where
the
same
way off-
the side of the Fort nearest to
of
Can
easily be seen
easily
from the road leading from Brental steamship town. In the
the Peninsular and
Steamship company's wharf
case
the road leading from
Fort Palmer,
the Wharves passes close in rear of it,
the
from the
two
the
of
the town to
and