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To be added to

Lieut. 188/78

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Memo:

I entirely

War Office

26 July 1878.72

concur in the views

PRINTE

Mixed

FIDE

JCE.

TALLY

Expressed by my colleagues of the Colonial

Committee in their letter of the

Defence

26th June, and am not prepared

to

Table

recommend queer of 38 and 25 tous to be sent to the Cape for the defence of Bay; and am of opinion that it will suffice for the permanent defence of lape

, як дина Town to send out five 10m

Lechad

are now about to be made of an improved pattern with enlarged chambers and of grater length to take the place of the present but I should prefer that

118 tou gun

six seuch guns were sent instead office, three to be mounted on either side of the bay at or near Kyk in de Pot and Craig's Tower.

These guit

will exceed in power the

present 25 ton graus and will be quite

equal to piercing any

powerful ironclads at a range of

but the moot

3000 Gords,

Considering the

нечер

limited number of

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