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and address letter to-

The Secretary,

Admiralty, Whitehall,

London, S.W.

414

Confidential

Admiralty,

8th

April

1903.

Sir,

In reply to your letter No.514/023 of the 1st

instant, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the

Admiralty to request you will inform Mr Secretary Chamberlain

that they concur in the Remarks, No.311R, by the Colonial

Defence Committee on the Report for the Season 1901-02 on

the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps.

2.- I am to addthat a copy of the Remarks has been

forwarded to the Commander-in-Chief on the China Station

with directions to report, in accordance with the suggestion

in paragraph 11 of the Remarks, on the site, etc., of the

proposed instructional searchlight at Hong Kong.

Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

S. W.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

C.J. Inner