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't vessels.
umers both of
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the
would ferobably
e lines would,
d.
ircumstances, onay und that it
may
St. In's lost
's fort
wtice of whappily be necessary.
im there of
ion
is made,
ift and lightly
may occupy the
and
the
Bay of
ediate damage could enry's Ships
omr
ir, if no preparation d to resist them.
iclar character.
of Torpedoes should
the various Harbours
Coast, and
4 persons
istuction in their
tout.
I have
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い
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
The Stone
I have the horror tobe
11
Jour obedient Servant (S.) Bd. Selby Smyth Wand-
the Minister of Inilitia & Defences.
P. S.
I have so frequently brought to notice the totally unprotected state of the Harbours of Victoria and the
entrance to
Island,
bez
as well as
cimalt in Vancouver's
of the immea
important Coal Mines I need only
that funs Dockyard
ince
Crora
of
more
immeasurably
Nanaimo that
urge very earnestly lying in requimalt
& obsolete for haval lervice,
in fact kept back from being lent to Ingland partly at my request two years
be at length
ass may
and mounted on
handed
over
's Point
In Aulay's
to command the entrance to both
harbours. A new
20573
Battery of Arhillag
has
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