Enclosure 2
3. C.
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RECO RECo 7 AUG 00
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COPY.
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Confidential.
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Government House.
The following is H. E. Li Hung Chang's scheme of
defence:
A strong Army Corps, consisting if possible of
Chinese & foreigners (i.e. to prevent Army from
joining the rebels in case the labter get too
strong.)
(2) The troops to be stationed at different
centers or district cities to maintain peace.
(3) A strong police force also consisting of
Chinese & foreigners.
Military power is a vital necessity to his
maintaining peace & to treat with foreign Powers
in future. He thought that by appointing
Europeans to the Army greater confidence would
be felt in Southern China. As far as he knows he
has foreign sympathy on his side at present. He
thinks so because all the Ministers of Foreign
Powers have wired to him that the friendship
between foreign Bowers & China is not broken,
& that the Powers only regard the move as a
local uprising: "But of course" he said, "that
was some time ago before this murder of the
German Minister had occurred. He anticipates
that Germany will be the most difficult Power
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