FIDENTIAL.
Long Long.
30 JUL 03)
Government House.
25 June 1903
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Sir,
With reference to your confidential despatch of the 17th
of April last and to paragraph 4 of my confidential desp-
the
atch of the 28 ultimo I have the honour to address you with
respect to the points raised by the Colonial Defence Commit
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in paragraphs 7,8 and 9 of their memorandum, 311 R of the
A
16th of March last relative to the composition of the Hong
Kong Volunteer Corps.
2.
I referred the remarks of the Colonial Defence Com-
mittee to the General Officer Commanding the Treops for his
consideration and I now transmit copies of a minute by him
and by the Officer Commanding the Royal Artillery and of a
letter by the Commandant of the Corps.
3.
The objections, as stated by Major Pritchard in para-
graph 5 of his letter, to the recommendation of the Colonial
Defence Committee that No 1 Company of the Corps should be RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN M.P.
retained.
etc,
etc,
etc,