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PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

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Reference :-

C.O.537 / 33

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

of the Report of the recent Royal Commission on the Defence of Britisk

Possissions and Commerce abroad.

which concemo

Hong Kong. I feel it my duty 8. mention that this part of the Report has not as yet been communicated to either

the Governor or to the General Commanding Her Majesty's Troops

at this Station. In

Common

with

General Sargent, I am thus placed in a position of much difficulty. It is, of course, duty to urge the completion of

course, our

the

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the Defences; but we labour ander the disadvantage of ignorance

of what Defences have been proposed by the Commission sitting in London; respecting which the local knowledge of the Govenor and of the chief Military Officers on the spot could not fail & be of practical

use.

I have the honor & be

My Lad

your Lordship's Most Obedient

Humble Servant

5. Bowen