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Appendix No. 4.
Cost of batteries
£ 93,908
HONG KONG,
Building submarine mining establishment at Stonecutter's Island and firing stations at North
Point and Belcher's Point
3,000
96,908
Cost of armament (exclusive of 7-in. guns and 64-prs. in store) Submarine mines (59 E. C. extra to authorized establishment)
77,545
1,000
78,545
Total military defences
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175,453
(Signed)
W. CROSSMAN, Colonel, R.E.
(Table No. 2.)-WAR Garrison required.
No.
Total.
Mounted men
Scouts
50
Royal Artillery
Kowloon Peninsula
187
Stonecutter's Island
119
Batteries, Hong Kong
202
6 field guns and mountain battery
54
562
Royal Engineers..
Submarine mines Service detachment
10
50
60
Infantry
Kowloon Peninsula
300
Stonecutter's Island,
200
Belcher's Point.
200
Quarry Point
100
Victoria Gap
200
Stanley Gap
Wan-tsai Gap
100
Reserve in Victoria
900
2,000
Total
2,672
To be provided from police force.
These numbers have been fixed by the Com- mittee, counting 17 men for each heavy gun.
If The field guns (6) will be in position. required to be moved coolies would be employed.
2 garrison batteries, 210 men ;
4 companies
gun lascars, 352 men; or 2 companies gun lascars and 150 volunteers, supplemented by 26 infantry.
The number of service men might perhaps be reduced, their duty would be more that of superintendence than of actual labour.
1,000 (European regiment); 1,000 native troops to be held in readiness at Madras for service at Hong Kong. (See Lieutenant- General Donavon's observations, No. 1 of 3rd March, 1880.
In addition 400 to 500 Chinese coolies should be embodied in time of war for transport, engineers, and submarine mining services.
W. C.
(Table No. 3.)--RETURN showing Barrack Accommodation, existing and proposed.
No. Total.
Existing
In Hong Kong.
In Kowloon
955 45
Cost.
£
1,000
Proposed
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Sanitarium
150
Stonecutter's West battery.
51
Kowloon Dock
68
Included in cost of batteries.
Quarry Point
50
319
To be provided specially
Kowloon
400
32,000
Stonecutter's Island
300
24,000
Quarry Point
150
12,000
Belcher's Point..
263
21,240
1,113
To be accommodated in huts or mat-sheds at Kowloon or in barracks at Victoria and Stanley Gaps
Add for hospital
Total
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190
2,622
89,240 25,000
114,240
Note. In the General Estimate 25,0007. has been inserted for infantry posts and entrench- ments. This would provide for barracks at the gaps, and for each extra work as is required to make barracks defensible against musketry.
As the hospital would, in any case, have probably to be provided for the garrison shortly, it should hardly be included in the works actually required for the defences.
The cost of providing barracks has been estimated at 801. per man, being the sum named to me on making inquiries from the Commanding Royal Engineer, as being a full estimate.
W. C.
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