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is still at this date with the heaviest

ships of his squadron at Nagasaki

Japan, where he is in telegraphie communication with Hongkong and "Singapore, and whence he van

best watch the movements of the

Russian Admiral and of his..

ships.

4.

We have at Hong Kong

the ironclad turret-ship "Wivern", and five gunboats, also four

torpedo boats; and, as I have

already reported, the Auxiliary Flotilla formed of the steam-

launches

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launches belonging to the Colonial Government is being rapidly armed and equipped. The new Forts to be constructed at the cost of the Colony, are in the hands of the Royal...

Engineers; and the

expected to

my

reply is anxiously telegram of April

147, asking when the heavy guns -

may

be

provided for those Forts

expected to arrive; also what is the decision of Her Majesty's Government with regard to

(a) The proposed direct telegraph to

Singapore,

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