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ith reference to your letters of 14th and luth lay,
o buke now have the honour to report on the Vital Requirements of Fe Colony and what British Tonnage is necessary to meet such
equirements.
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liongkong being a great trade port and distributing: entre with no raw productions of its own owes its development and itality mainly to shipping, and shipping is therefore in itself
vital requirement of llonkeną.
3.
Under British Government and primarily and chiefly conjunction with British commercial and shipping enterprise the olony has developed into a large trading and industrial community consisting of a population of approximately 564,000 ashore and
ilost whose livelihood depends on the maintenence of the ordinary trede and industries of the Colony. e coneider this maintenance
at trade and industries the chief vital requirement of Honkong and that it should be primarily cared for by British interests.
4.
The trade of the Colony is inseparably linked up ith South Chins and practically no with borth and Central China, Indo-China, Siam, the Straits Settlements and Eorneo, the Dutch
Indies, Indie and Japan, and these trade communications are served
ily with the corster class of tonnage, chiefly under the British
g. While allied and neutral tonnage is employed partly, and By continue to be employed, on these trade routes, we are of
inion that it is a vital necereity to retain British tonnage for the continued regular service of these trading courtsications.
5.
The cargo and passengers moved by shipping on these mutes is traffic asential to the communities involve, the very tanding; of these communities and the extremely simple life of the
es precluding; anything but serential lest degree. For instance ilingkon; ar
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