Reference:-
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
CO 537/190
11
COPYRIGHT - NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION
237/7° 2
Committer Rooms. Whitehall
10 Aug! 1878.
id
by
the Colonial
to acknowledge the
of the 31th July, enclosing reports respecting
an Atlantic ports.
the
+ for the information of for the Colonies the
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the honour the Sie
your obedient recount.
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Reference:-
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
CO 537/190
N
COPYRIGHT NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION
Secret Confidential
Committee Room,
Whitehall
10 August 1878.
3
The Report of St Gui! Sir E. Selby hugth, which has in substance been adopted by the Dominion Grvemment, appears to the Committer to call for some remark; as the scheme of defence recommended therein is at variance with their proposals, and is in their opinion totally inadequate to meet the defensive requirements of the Dominion -
The Committer desire to point out at the outset a misapprehension as to the degree of protection which the Atlantic seaboard of the
to derive from
Doncmon
may
expect
Ships of H. M. Fleet – a
One
misapprehension
which underlies the whole of these peoposals,
has a
and has
a most important bearing upon
the entire question of defence -
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