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DESPATCH.
C
emor
No.
317
1899
previous Paper.
HONG KONG
No 34478
(Subject.)
C.O.
34473 RECO
Rect 11 EC 39
Requisition for Arms
for Police Dept
sends
E
Uned cons 2.9 8.
Further
auso 50. 16 Feb
(75)-12055-18004-12-
Absequent Paper.
18774
05
<
(Minutes.)
It is extraordinary
that
such a large requisition should not have been provided for in
the Estimates. I think we should have had further explanation as to
why these arms are required for six hundred men, and that the 1900 Estimates
were sanctioned on the understanding that they included all expenditure that could not reasonably be foreseen; ask why
this requisition was not provided for on these Estimates, and why
the arms are required.
Appear the requisition regarded.
A.F.
20/12
Mid 20
C.Pd 20 at once