Fly acknowledge, and
and say Considering these propisali
that before
we must have
this report upon that scheme, and the
dft. Estimates
A. F. 25
+5/5
0.
298
21466
Red 14 AUG 19!
Government House,
July, 1899.
No.
182.
Hong Kong,
13th July, 1899.
I agree-
In the dress Estimates, and
1
In July,
with this 21461
and 21463.
then or here better had on have time they come
See further
119
ow 29485
9.0.83/11
Sir,
closure
I have the honour to enclose a statement
from Mr May, Captain Superintendent of Police, showing a very
serious position as to the European police force of this Colony. After close inquiry I endorse everything stated by Mr May
There is no getting over the fact that for men doing the work
of the European police this Colony is unhealthy, and the summer climate is peculiarly trying. Nor can men be expected to
engage to serve in a Colony where serious outbreaks of plague
seem to have become annual except the inducement of good pay
be held out. I have today before me reports from Taipo-hui
stating that within four weeks ten out of the thirteen Indian
police stationed there and the European Sergeant have been
down with malarial fever. A Sergeant and two Inspectors, in
three other stations in the New Territory have come in to hospital suffering from malarial fever. All those things, and the
extraordinary increase in cost of living are soon known
among the forces from which those men have been recruited,
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
800.
800.
and
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