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the men hitherto procured from Bombay and other parts of India having had no previous Police training have not proved efficient.
A number of those men who had entered for a limited period will be leaving next March, and though I hope to be able to detain them, if needful, for a couple of months longer, it is highly necessary to take early measures for replacing them.
Knowing the liberality of the Indian Government on other occasions and not dissimilar ones, I have thought it advisable to communicate with Your Excellency and inquire whether they have any supernumerary Officers in the Police and if they be so inclined allow them to volunteer for service in Hongkong.
I have hitherto found it so difficult to prevent corruption and bribe taking amongst the class of Inspectors whom I have hitherto been able to secure that I am specially anxious that the Sikh Contingent in question should have at its head some person who is a gentleman by birth and education, it being my belief that in no other way can the Government be secured against corrupt practices.
Having heard that a young member of an old county family with which I have been for years acquainted was in the Punjab
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I have heard that you cannot spare 100 of the Sikh