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replace by 12-pr. quick-firing guns, and the third has a very fire.

limited

By the abolition of these guns, a large personnel would be set free. In other respects, the heavy armament is in existing circumstances sufficient.

range

of

(F.)-Estimate of Cost.

Approximate Cont.

Station.

Service.

Stores. Works. Total.

£

Belcher's

Remounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guns on

charge)

Battery of two 19-pr. Q.F. guns....

Installation for three electric lights

5,500

Duplicating engine and dynamo for existing

light

1,000

4889

£

60

50

80

80

750 6,250

10

1,010

Stonecutter's Island

Purchase of sites (say)..

Remounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guns on

charge)

Mounting two 12-pr. Q.F. guns..

Installation for two electric lights

Duplicating engine and dynamo for existing

lights

..

: g

·

4,000

65

65

65

65

:

..

4,000

650

4,650

1,300

10

1,310

Lyemun

Remounting two 6-pr. Q.F. guns (guna on

:

charge)

Battery of two 12-pr. Q.F. guns ....

Installation for three electric lights

6,800

Duplicating engine and dynamo for existing

light

1,400

9889

40

40

60

60

800

10

6,100 1,410

Harbour

Provision of piles and construction of man-

of-war anchorage, omitting cont netting (say)

7,000

of

Total

18,500

2,690

32,090

• Not known.

(Signed)

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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APPENDIX.

REVISED RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF SEA TRAFFIC AT HONG KONG IN TIME OF WAR.

1

(Drawn up by Local Defence Committee 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 Lyamun 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 instrue- tions from the Harbour-master for its guidance through the mine-fields.

FRINTED AT TER FOREIGN OFFIED ET T. WARRISOW.-6/6/94.

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