CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12] — Page 386

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Mirs Bay

Copy

Erle Hell, Rympton

10715 Secret

359

379

11 May 1898

Ser.

In reply to

letter of the Your

of the 5th

Just

I have the honour to inform you for the information

of my

Lords Commissioners of the Admirally, that in

three. Nov. 96. the German Squadron opent upwards

Weeks at Quemory, surveying the place with the view to making it a

Feb 97 an

araling Station and Dockyard. In the German Admiral coming to Haughing

he informed me that Licemoy was quite unsuitable During the German Squadron's visit to the southward, the ships spent some ben days Mirs Bay, ostensibly for Target Practice, and subsequently the German Admiral visited Pettin

When at Amoy in Mas qy the British

Consul informed

me

that

he had ascertained

Confidence" from the German Consul that the

Sungli Jämen had been approached with the vrais

of obtaining the right of making use of Mers

The Secretary

Admiralty

Bay

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