The Archive · 1934

Similarity in Defence Problems

Similavity between the operations for combined aerial and naval de-hypothetical attack from the Baltic and the Hongkong defence plan ud are noted with interest here in comments on the Admiralty reports on the recent manduvres for the defence of Moray Firth, The hypothesis of an attack on Hongkong from the east, with the possibility of aid from Singapore, resulted in. strategic considerations curiously similar to those required for Moray Firth, as shown by a number of facts, such as the des patch of H.M-S. Adventure to Hongkong and the formation of volunteer. reserve air squadron in Hongkong.

With problems of Hongkong's defence under consideration, the jmanguvres of the Home Fleet off north Scotland have afforded a Jnomber of elements which help to larity Hongkone's "problems

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