Dear Sir Gilbert,
I am not hearing any official comment, but I gather the local people do not want to pay for dredging the channel to be done. Anyhow, they do not want to pay for it. I gather the local people are not keen on this work being done at their expense, but they will have to leave the decision to such ports as we have.
The Cos. actually settle between themselves. The Co. want Admiralty work, and they will naturally fall in with Admiralty requirements.
I have not yet had the dimensions from Admiral Field.
15.7.24 GG
10th July, 1924.
Page 617
I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th July enclosing a copy of a communication from Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, on the subject of the proposed new dry dock at that place.
When I saw Mr. Fletcher I made it clear to him that the Admiralty could not give any definite guarantee that an annual amount of fleet repair work would be given to commercial dockyards at Hong Kong. I also told him, however, that there was no reason to think that there would be any change in the existing practice of sending H.M. Ships to refit at commercial yards at Hong Kong when such a course was found to be necessary.
The Admiralty policy has been to observe religiously the spirit and letter of the Washington Naval Treaty and, though such a dock as that proposed would be of very great potential value to the Navy, I am afraid that we cannot support it even to the extent of...
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I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th July enclosing a copy of a communication from
Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, on the subject of the proposed new dry dock at
that place.
When I saw Mr. Fletcher I made it clear to him
that the Admiralty could not give any definite guarantee that an annual amount of fleet repair work would be given
I also told him, to commercial dockyards at Hong Kong. however, that there was no reason to think that there would be any change in the existing practice of sending H.M. Ships to refit at commercial yards at Hong Kong
when such a course was found to be necessary.
The Admiralty policy has been to observe religiously the spirit and letter of the Washington Naval Treaty and, though such a dock as that proposed
would be of very great potential value to the Navy, I
am afraid that we cannot support it even to the extent
of
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