The Chairman.
Secret & Confidential Committer.
By my
Memorandume of the
22nd Diember 1879
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I have pointed
out to the Committer that the duties at this Station, although at times b. ssing hard on the present Sarrison. difficulty, and that if any increase of Troop should be sanctioned boment the requirements
are carried out without
of the proposed Batteries, the dutirs would undoubtedly be light.
lendar these circumstances, when an
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Auxiliary Forer is only required, and could only be less. ful, after war had been declared. it serius tome most desirable to consider whether the object in view, viz of supplementing ther defence of Hong Kong, could not be better and more cheaply at. tained by other meaus.
Ifully recognize the necessity of English Colonies providing for their own defruce, or if unable to do so, of contributing towards it, sar no reason why Hong Kong should be exceptionable. In my answer to duration 14 I have considered in detail the many
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