be recruited by the Recruiting Staff in India, and
that none will be entertained locally.
These new
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rules will have effect from 1st January 1907, and the
notification will be published in the Gazette of India
and in India Army Orders; a copy is being forwarded
to His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary in China, for notification
in that country. Although this may not actually put
a stop to the independent flow of emigrants from India
in search of police or other employment in the East,
we consider that the restrictions now imposed will
effectually check it.
3.
Regarding the enforcement of the immediate
repatriation from China to India of natives of India
who may be unable or unwilling to be enrolled in the
Municipal Police at Shanghai or Tientsin, we consider
that, apart from the fact that the Government of India
has no jurisdiction over the areas concerned,
compulsory repatriation is undesirable, as to enforce
it against men who have emigrated to China at their
own expense,
would be to encroach, to an undue extent
on their personal liberty.