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Secret Confidential
Committee Room,
Whitehall
10 August 1878.
The Report of Lt you? Fir E. Selby Smyth, which has in substance been adopted by the Dominion Government, appears to the Committer to call for some remark; as the scheme defence recommended therein is at variance with their proposals, and is in their opinion totally inadequate to meet the defensive
requirements of
the Dominion -
of
The Committer desire to point out at the outset a misapprehension as to the degree of protection which the Atlantic seaboard of the
Doniemon
may
expect
to derive from
the
Ships of H. M. Fleet - a misapprehension which underlies the whole of these propovals, and has a most important bearing upon the entire question of defence -
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