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Enclosure
CO 20884
Note of proceedings at meeting of the Sub-Committee to consider
MEC a scheme of Compulsory Military Training, helä a
Council Chamber on the 6th. of June, 1910,
Present:-
The Officer Administering the Government.
Hon
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Mr. A. M. Thomson, Acting Colonial Secretary.
E. A. Hewett - Supt., P.a 0. S.N.co.
H. Keswick
Mr. H. V. Robertson
Mr. R. Shewan
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K. N. J. Stabb
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Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Id.
- Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.
Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.
1.K. & 5. Bkg. Corporation.
Mr. W. Dickson
Lieut.-Col. A. Chapmak). E.K.V.Corps.
Chartered Bank of I., A. and China.
Major Hart-Synnot, D.3.0.
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Chief Staff Office
The Officer Administering the Government
explained that the scheme drafted by Major Hart-Synnot had been modified by the addition of the words at the end of clause #
providing for a shorter term of attachement to Regulars in the case 1 of those who had already served as Officers of Volunteers Infantry, and by the addition to paragraph ± 18 of the provi- -sion for training on Sundays and holidays only. This latter
modification had been made because he had found that the schema in its priginal form was not acceptable in certain quarters. He thought it would be better to begin by discussing the modified scheme of training for the men of the proposed Corps set out in this addition to paragraph 18. He thought that by limiting the training to Sundays and holidays the scheme ought
to be acceptable to all.
Mr. Henry Keswick said that the fundamental
objection to the whole scheme was indicated in the first two lines of clause 3 where it is stated that "Officers of the
Regular Army in Hongkong have their own work to do". Even so had the Heads of Mercantile Firms and their employees their ow
work