93
PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
Reference :-
LITICO.587
33
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO
The
place
d'armes
of Russia will be
Vladivostok, and if you
you
look at the map
will see how extremely disagreeable
it will be for China to have a Sebastopol
there with Corea near,
likely to be allied
her. If
with Russia against her.
hold her
1
for
If China can
some months, till.
October, or temporize till then and then
without
putting
hersel of too much in
the hands of Europeans, get in some 200,000 breech-loaders, it would be
a
tough job for Russia to defeat her, provided China prevents Coves joining
Russia.
China is not bound by the Declaration of Paris against Privateers, and she would with her wealth, engage
C
fast vessels which would
even
Russian trade in the Baltic!
There is a
which presses
dancage
matter, Your Excellency,
mediately -
even more imm
than the relations of Russia and China, i. e. the state of defence of Honghong.
I do not know what has been done
in this
way,
but, judging from the little that has been done at Singapore and
Galle. I fear HongKong is also undefended.
Do not think I am
intruding in
stating what ought to be seen
by doing accomplis.
so,
to
even
I am recommending facts
if,
"The whole of the landing places around the isle ought to be examined by a mixed Naval and Military party,