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havy lores the accomms.

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a dock which the largest battle ship afloat might have been docked, and which might in the Event

q

war have been of

immense value to the

Empire.

2.

Notwithstanding

The recent decision.

to proceed with the

construction

The dock 久

at the present eiti

accupied by the haval

gard, I would Earnestly invite the attention of

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The Lords of the Admiralty to the Existing position. In The

Ez aturs

Thing

must in the

future, if every forecast Eastern developments be not falsified, the most important haval station in the East, if not in The Empire

outside

Great Britain, and when it becomes 20 the dockyard as at present projected will be Entiraly inadequate to the requirements of The fleet in Eastern Waters. But Hong Kong

is not alone au mugs