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a dock which the largest battle ship afloat might have been docked, and which might in the Event
q
war have been of
immense value to the
Empire.
2.
Notwithstanding
The recent decision.
to proceed with the
construction
The dock 久
at the present eiti
accupied by the haval
gard, I would Earnestly invite the attention of
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The Lords of the Admiralty to the Existing position. In The
Ez aturs
Thing
must in the
future, if every forecast Eastern developments be not falsified, the most important haval station in the East, if not in The Empire
outside
Great Britain, and when it becomes 20 the dockyard as at present projected will be Entiraly inadequate to the requirements of The fleet in Eastern Waters. But Hong Kong
is not alone au mugs