PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TLC.O.537
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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signallers being very efficient.
For reasons with which the Government is fully acquainted it is not proposed to alter the present position of the termini the Submarine telegraph cables son to bring theme within the
of
Defences.
Food
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That Hong Kong can be blockaded for any lengthened period may be left of consideration.
Still in the event of
war with a
against
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For a
us
a powerful
combination
China also
perhaps
unfriendly, there might be some difficulty in supplying food to large and ever. mcreasing native population, and though a very proportion of the inhabitants
considerable
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may be expected to leave, the Government would have to take
in in
steps in
conjunction with the dealers in staple articles of consrimption
tion to ensure a
sufficient
supply being kept in the Gotowns, especially as regarde rice which
nearly altogether from
comes
and Cochin China.
This matter was
Diam
22 brought
债
before the Governor early in 1885 and his despatch 210 of the 4th in that to the Secretary of
May
State
for the Colonies will shew
apprehension
there existed no
the subject.
are
onn
The views then expressed
fully shared in by the present Government, which also has under its consideration the steps to be taken to reduce the native
war and
population in time of get rid of the pauper and
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