being only 386 ft., does not admit any man-of-war of larger dimen for the purpose of repairs. Hitherto, when any targe cruiser of the Chinese Navy, such as the Haichi, needed an annual overhaul. the service of one of the foreign-owned docks had to be sought. which state of affairs is, for obvious reasons, considered far from satisfactory by the Minister of Marine. Last year when Admiral Duke Lin Kuan-hsiung inspected the Local Admiralty and decided to abolish it, he went round and also in spected the Kiangnan Dock. Hr noticed that there was vacant land adjoining the dock large enough to lengthen the dock by 100 feet. In.
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