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Printed for the use of the Colonial Office. June 1894.

CONFIDENTIAL.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

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STRAITS.

No. 779.

Defence Scheme revised to September 1893.

Remarks by Colonial Defence Committee.

(Not for communication to the Colony.)

1. THE Colonial Defence Committee recommend that the Ordinance

referred to in paragraph 3, p. 86, should be drafted as has been done in the

case of Malta and Gibraltar.

May 30, 1894.

(Signed)

W. PEACOCKE, Secretary,

Colonial Defence Committee.

PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE BY T. HARRISON.— -1/6/94.

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