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India Office,
Whitehall, S. W.
Whitehall,
S.WP.
C. O.
Z
August 1894.
Mi Wilson
Araft to the India Office, asking if
they
can let us have not less than
a dozen copies of the printed enclosure for circulation to vacions colmies
C.Pd. 8. Ang
at once
It is requested that in any further communica tion on this subject the under-mentioned letter and number may be quotedy and the reply addressed to The Under Secretary of State for India,
Inilia Office,
M. b2bb.
Sir
sulated 5 June, 1
1894.
13517
RECP
REG 3 AUG 34
Iam directed by the scoretary of State for India in bouncil to forward for the information of
the
Secretary of State for the bolonies the accompanying copy of a confidential despatch from the Government of India regarding an illicit trade in rifles and
ammunition carried
India from Hong Kong.
not
by sepoys returning to
The Government of India fear that this trade is
to
n of
the
confined
corps in Hong Kong but that Sepoys of other bolonial borps and Police
recruited in India have
In
India have engaged in it.
some cases
the sepoys have been aided by
the possession of passes from their bommanding
Officers. Commanding officers of bolonial books
• power to grant pases for
have however no
to their men when returning to India,
he
I am
am therefore to request that you will
atms
move the Marquis of Ripon to inform all colonial
The Under Secretary of State,
Y 30334.
Colonial office.
6 crus.-8/90. L 1639.
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