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Administration." A reference to the importance to Georgetown of the maintenance of cable communication might be inserted in Chapter 1, and the landing-place of the cable should be there stated so that it may be seen whether the defence arrangements provide for its adequate protection.
25. Chapter VI should, as already mentioned, embody the arrangements for the construction and maintenance of the additional telegraph or telephone lines required for military purposes in war. It should also contain the arrangements which would be made for putting out fires that might be kindled in the town during an attack on it.
26. The Colonial Defence Committee recommend that the revision of the Scheme, in accordance with the foregoing Remarks, should at once be put in hand and submitted at an early date.
M. NATHAN, Secretary,
(Signed)
March 19, 1898.
Colonial Defence Committee.
PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE BY J. W. HARRISON.—23/3/98.
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