PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
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Reference :-
C.O.537 / 33
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
of the Report of the recent Royal Commission on the Defence of Britisk
Possissions and Commerce abroad.
which concemo
Hong Kong. I feel it my duty 8. mention that this part of the Report has not as yet been communicated to either
the Governor or to the General Commanding Her Majesty's Troops
at this Station. In
Common
with
General Sargent, I am thus placed in a position of much difficulty. It is, of course, duty to urge the completion of
course, our
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the Defences; but we labour ander the disadvantage of ignorance
of what Defences have been proposed by the Commission sitting in London; respecting which the local knowledge of the Govenor and of the chief Military Officers on the spot could not fail & be of practical
use.
I have the honor & be
My Lad
your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant
5. Bowen