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CHAMBER

OF

COMMERCE

(INCORPORATERS LONDON

84-85,

KING WILLIAM STREST. KUM

Copy of Selegram.

Superintendent

RCC?

C. O.

0544

411

REGP 13 APR 85

5th April 1885.

Andent Hongkong.

To east Extension

Please deliver Chairman Chamber " Commerce London following from Hongkong Chamber :- Following resolution passed unanimously at Meeting "Legislative Council 1st Cipul =

That in opinion this Council there ought to be direct telegraphic "Communication leturen Honghong " and Singapore the nearest British " settlement, and that immediate steps "be taken to supplement defences of

Aonghong by obtaining with the least possible delay a flotilla of torpedo "launches fully equipped "" Resolution. ends. Urge Government support "Keswick."