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or the Colonial Government and their repatriation is a
matter to be arranged between the War Office and
Indian Government.
4.
Indians for service in the Hong Kong police
force are enlisted locally, as a rule, though at times
it is necessary, owing to an insufficiency of local
applicants, to send to India for recruits.
5.
These men on the completion of their term of
service almost invariably return to India and live
there in the enjoyment of their pensions. Their return
however is not compulsory.
6.
Mach year however about 15 Indians are dismissed
Trom the Hong Kong police force The Government of the
Colony does not at present arrange for their repatria-
tion but, as a matter of fact, the greater part of
them do return to their native country, though some
few may seek and obtain employment in the Colony or
elsewhere.
7.
The only men therefore of the Hong Kong police
force whose repatriation we need consider are those
dismissed from the force; and the Government of the
Colony is in future prepared to bear the cost of their
repatriation should they be desirous of returning. I
question however it would be possible to compel them
even on dismissal from the force, to leave the Colony
in which they were originally enlisted.
8.
These dismissed men moreover are generally bad
characters and it is hardly to be expected that the
British Minister at Pekin would care to utilize their
services in China as suggested in theForeign Office
enclosure to your despatch under acknowledgment.