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replace by 12-pr. quick-firing guns, and the third has a very limited range of fire.
By the abolition of these guns, a large personnel would be set free. In other respects, the heavy armament is in existing circumstances sufficient.
(F.)-Estimate of Cost..
Approximate Coat.
Station.
Service,
Stores.
Works. Total.
£
£
Belcher's ..
Remounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guns on
charge)
Battery of two 12-pr. Q.F. guns..
Installation for three electric lights
5,500
750
Duplicating engine and dynamo for existing
light
1,000
482895
£
50
80
6,250
1,010
Purchase of sites (my)....
Stonecutter's Inland
Bemounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guns on
charge)
::
65
4,000
99
Mounting two 12-pr. Q.F. guns,.
65
65
Installation for two electric lights
Duplicating engine and dynamo for existing
lights
4,000 1,300
650
4,650
10
1,310
e
Lyemun
Remounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guns on
charge)
40
40
Battery of two 12-pr. Q.F. guns..
60
60
Installation for three electric lights
5,300
800
6,100
Duplicating engine and dyname for existing
light
1,400
10
1,410
Harbour
Provision of piles and construction of man-
of-war anchorage, omitting cost netting (say)
7,000
of
Total
**
18,500
2,590 32,090
(Signed)
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APPENDIX.
REVISED RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF SEA TRAFFIC AT HONG KONG IN TIME OF WAR.
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(Drawn up by Local Defence Committes as part of the Defence Scheme, 1894, and communicated in C.O. letter, Hong Kong, 9207, of 29th May, 1894)
1. Acting under the directions of the Senior Naval Officer, the Harbour-master, with
the assistance of a sufficient number of examining launches, will be responsible for regulating the admission of ships of all kinds under the following restrictions.
2. Junks and other sailing craft of native build will at night anchor in Aldrich Bay or In the red sector of Green Island light, and will not proceed beyond them. By day they will be permitted to enter by all the harbour entrances, subject only to a general super- vision of them by the Harbour-master's staff
3. All steam-vessels and ships will be made to bring-to for examination outside Lyemun Pass if entering from the east, or in Belcher's Bay if coming from the west, and will not cross the entrance to Lyemun Pass on the east, and on the west the north and south line, which touches the western point of Stonecutter's Island, until provided by the Harbour-master with the permissory signal, and with either a pilot or full instructions as to the passage to be taken through the mine-fields. All such ships coming from the west will enter by the Sulphur Channel,
4 The permissory signal will consist of flags by day and coloured lamps by night, to be altered from day to day.
5. Any steam-vessels or ships attempting to pass the lines above indicated without showing the permissory signal will be first warned by firing a shot across the bows. If this is insufficient, she is to be treated as an enemy both by batteries and mines without further question.
6. No steam-vessel or ship to leave the harbour without receiving a pilot or instruc- tions from the Harbour-master for its guidance through the mine-fields.
• Not known.
G. DIGBY BARKER, Major-General,
President.
G. T. H. BOYES, Commodore. W. H. FAWKES, Captain, R.N.
W. H. MULLOY, Colonel, C.R.E. A. H. THOMAS, Captain, D.A.A.G.,
Secretary.
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