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be

shewn to be of strategical

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necessity for the Empire ab

large.

My lords do not gather

from Good Eustace Cecil's letter of 21st June last,

to

the Colonial Office, that the Military ducthorities

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of St Joh

is in this light.

But even if it should be

made to appear that my

hoods have, in this respect, misapprehended the meaning

of hard Eustace Cecil's letter,

the

Reference:-

CO 537/192

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