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Sub-Enclosure.

COMPARATIVE TABLE of Coast Defences on China Station.

(Compiled from latest information-October 1908.)

United States.

Subig Bay.

Manila.

France.

Cape St. James.

Russia.

Vladivostock.

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Germany.

Tsingtau.

Great Britain.

Hong Kong.

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Existing

Weight of metal projected Proposed addition

Weight of metal projected

West.

East.

2-12" guns -10"

4-8′′ " 4-4+7′′

3,780 lbs. 12-6" guns

1,200 lbs.

4,080

6--12"

214-8′′

guns

"

"

4-30 cm. (12") howitzers 4—27 cm. (10·8′′) 18–24 cm. (9°4′′) guns 8-138-6 mm. (5-6′′) guns

"

6-11" howitzers. 6-11” howitzers 10-9"

4-10" guns. 16-9''

40-0′′

"

11

5,500 lbs. 24-14" guns 32-10" • 48,400 lbs.

53,900

£6,400,000

10,322 lbs.

91

8-g" 20-10" guns 52-6"

6-4-7′′

16,680 lbs.

20,538 lbs.

10,322 lbs.

£3,500,000

16,680 lbs.

20,538 lbs.

£304,500

the defences of Saigon.

Total weight of metal projected Value of imports and exports (about)

Remarks

Nil

(Naval base)

The total estimates for 1909 | The above under-estimates

for construction of batteries at Manila and Subig Bay were £1,975,000, while £31,000 was to be spent on torpedo defence at Manila.

West.

East.

-28 cm. (11") howitzers -28 cm. (11′′) guns 11-6′′ guns

5-9.2′′ guns. 3—9′2′′ guns. 8-6"

3-8′′ "

6,245 lbs.

2,700 lbs.

1,440 lbs.

...

***

6,245 lbs.

£5,100,000

2,700 lbs. £45,000,000

1,440 lbs.

Much work on new batteries | The above will be the state is in progress, but arma- ment not known.

of the defences of Hong Kong after the reorganiza- tion proposed by General Owen's Committee of Re- vision in 1906; the re- organization is not yet completed.

As, by the latest Memorandum by the Colonial Defence Committee on the defences of Hong Kong, the Admiralty consider that the standard to be fixed should provide for defence against battle-ships, and accepting the limit of three, which is stated in the Memorandum as the number which could undertake a long range bombardment of the Eastern Entrance, on the same basis three American battleships of the "Louisiana” class, of which there are now several in neighbouring waters, mount a total of 12—12′′, M—8′′, and 36—7′′ guns, giving a combined broadside of (12—12′′, 12—8′′, and 18-7" guns) 16,530 lbs.

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