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my
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It will be seen from (Enclosure.
letter to General Cameron that
ready to adopt his
suggestion that a Defence Committee or Conference, should
be appointed, consisting of
Governes, as Fresident;
of
the
the
e4dmiral, and General Commanding
Her Majesty's Naval and Military Forces on this station; of the Commodore; of the Officers ~ -Commanding the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery; and of
any
any whose presence may
other Naval and Military Officer,
re can
desirable. There but that, among
be considered
be no doubt
other advantages,
a Committee of this nature with merely consultative powers, would have the effect of securing greater uniformity and permanence in the general plan of Defence. It is notorious in all the stations of
the British
Army that almost every
new Colonel Commanding the Royal Engineers is inclined to ~
of adopt a fresh scheme
his own
invention
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