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by the Colonial Defence Committee can be made to coincide
with the views entertained by us here on the spot: and that
is, that all should be required to put in a modified course
of fixed armament work, supplemented with movable armament
or machine gun work, and also a course of musketry training.
The views held by major Pritchard and Major Bryan the present
C.R.A. are attached.
If Your Excellency concurs, I would ask you to forward
the whole correspondence to be laid befree the Colonial
Defence Committee for their opinion, as I am anxious to
recommend no fresh change in the composition of the Corps
until the matter has received the fullest consideration,
so that whatever is decided upen should be final
Hong Kong
2/6/03.
(signed) W.J.Gascoigne
Major General Commanding in South China