Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to---
The Under Secretary of State,
War Office,
London, S.W.,
and the following number quoted.
072529
95933
Sir,
War Office,
Ca 116 24
1 JAN
London, S.W.
30 December 1899.
I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of
Colonial Office
Alteration
of
the day the
instant (No.05933-99) relative to the Governor of Hong Kong having telegraphed a suggestion that, in the event of the 2.17 Royal Welsh Fusiliers, now stationed at Hong Kong, being required for service in South Africa, the local Volunteer Corps could, if desired, be raised to a strength
of 1,000 men.
In reply, I am to inform you that the Marquis of
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
S.W.
Lansdowne