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Reference:-
CO 537/197
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference:-
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
CO 537/197
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Secret Confidential
Si
253/18 3
26th August 1878.
I am requested by the Colonial Defence Committer to acknowledge the letters dated 19th and 21° receipt of your
August respectively, having reference,
to the defence of Esquimalt and Victoria in Vancouver's Island-
The Committer find
swing
some difficulty,
to the somewhat fragmentary rature
of the report's before them, and in the absence of plans, in arriving at any definits conclusion as to the Efficiency of the works of defence
Construction
The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
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