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Authorities or
discomfort to the troops -
occasioned by
the
System.
The Contrary
however is obviously the case. The proposed system requires fewer troops and gives
those whom it empiezo a greater amount of
Canatory Comfort
otherwise obtain.
10.
than they could.
As in the War Departments
despatches of 24 * Febmary-enclosed in
yours
of
the 26th February, a hope
that I might
• intimated that I
take measures
for rchiving Heer alle ajesty's Troops of
the Colonial Police
duty by aid fum force- I may as well state decidedly that
it is out of my power to do so -
received more than one
I have
juesing remenstrance
from the Superintendent of Police as to the
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diminished number
of
the
force
and the
great diffiantly which he thereby, experiences
the duties - In the Heinder
in c
carrying on Police the term
of
Service of
Too men
will expire next
year
in some
and if not recruited.
the lovee will be more way, the
than 150 men short of it's necesary strength... I am writing to the North of China and
to Scinde to ascertain what chance there
is of getting steady men
quarter, but I can
from either
afsure you that the necessity of strengthening the Police, so as to enable them to manage murely then
Ordinary duties- is one of the difficulties
of my Government at this moment=
11.
J
May
also
to add that although
My alberen seemed to think a gun best