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CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Ra 22 400 10
Government House,
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Hongkong, 22nd. July, 1910.
In January last I suggested to
Sir F. D. Lugard that the question of Compulsory Military
Training might be considered in this Colony. I added that
such training might be so arranged that little or none of
the time that an employee owes to his employer would be
sacrificed.
2.
Sir F. D. Lugard minuted that he
had had the same idea in his mind ever since he came here,
and after a conversation with me on the subject he authoriz-
-ed me to approach some of the leading employers of labour
in the matter. I did so and in the beginning of February I
reported that I had consulted the following Heads of
Firms:-
The Honourable Sir Paul Chater, Kt., 0.M.G.,
Director of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited.
The Honourable Mr. W. J. Gresson, Head of
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, and Director of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited.
BE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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Mr.