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Extension Telegraph Company's cables landed at Deep Water Bay is completely under fire from the position at Wong-nei-Cheong Gap, and at night an outpost would be posted in the Telegraph Hut. An outpost from the Mount Davis Section would, in like manner, guard the shore-end of the cables in Taihowan Bay.
The naval establishments, docks (except those at Aberdeen), and coal stores being within the harbour, no special precautions are necessary for their defence, and the dock at Aberdeen, in common with the others, will be protected against torpedo-boat attack by means of nets, &c.
All the magazines are reasonably safe so long as no enemy's ships are in the harbour. The Colonial make-shift powder magazine on Stonecutters Island is a source of danger, but plans are now approved for building a proper magazine on the east corner of the island.
General Outline of Defence.
The general plan of defence is as follows:-
1. To trust to the batteries, submarine mines, and Brennan torpedo to prevent the entrance of ships into the harbour at either end, and to repel by the same means, aided by Infantry, the landing of a force in the neighbourhood of the batteries.
2. To hold the central ridge and gaps, and to prevent an enemy who has landed on the south shore from scaling the steep and precipitous slopes leading to the central dominant position.
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