command but there was nothing beyond ordinary routine work to be undertaken during that period. Though the Chinese residents in Hongkong are generally a law-abiding race there are a considerable number of the criminal class who resort to the place from the mainland and who may give trouble at any moment. I have quite recently in compliance with requests made by a number of respectable Chinese, sanctioned the temporary appointment at their charge of 32 extra special constables and 8 extra district watchmen, and it is worth noting that the whole of the 20 persons hitherto selected by the Chinese as special constables are Indian-Mussulmans whom they appear to trust more than their countrymen.
It is a matter beyond doubt also that at times a large number of persons belonging to the Secret society known as Triads come over here to escape from...