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Сор
Sir,
Government House
Hong Kong.
157
C.O.
4700
10 FEB 01
14
6th January, 1913.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter 96406/12 (M.S.1.) dated 15th November, and in reply I
would urge that the Army Council should agree with me in
considering it necessary for two military officers to be on
the staff of the Governor of Hongkong as Aides-de-Camp.
2. Experience has demonstrated that it is impossible
for one A.D.C. to cope with the official work required of him
in Hongkong. Sir M. Nathan kept an extra A.D.C. whose
salary he defrayed out of his own pocket, while Sir F. Lugard
resorted to the expedient, which I have adopted, of having as
his Private Secretary an officer of the Army who can on
occasion assist the A.D.0. The number of British and Foreign
Men-of-War visiting this port probably exceeds the number to
be found during the year in any other port in a Crown Colony.
Last year the number reached 70. There is in addition
during six months of the year an uninterrupted stream of
visitors to the Colony many of whom have to be entertained
while the number of social functions in the Colony is such as
to demand constant inroads upon the time of the A.D.C. So
impossible have I found it to cope with the work with one
A.D.C. that I have appointed 2 Honorary As.D.C. drawn from the
Hongkong Volunteers to assist at large social functions.
These gentlemen cannot however assist in the performance of
what
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