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(a)
(b)
That the former service in the Hong Kong Regiment
and Indian Army (if any) be allowed to count for good conduct pay and pensions, and that they be granted the concessions laid down in Government General Order 1005 of 1902, paragraph VI (1) (a), (b) and (c) on the understanding that they refund any gratuity which they may have received on discharge.
In order that their service may be continuous that
their re-enlistment have effect from 1st December ember 1902, and that they be granted as on furlough from that date to the date of their actually joining the 5th Bengal Infantry.
(c) That men unwilling or unable to refund the gratuity
should not be granted the above concessions under (a) and (b) but that they be regarded as new enlistments in all respects.
2.
In reply I am to state that the Government of
India sanction the above proposals.
From
To
Dated Hong Kong, the 6th February 1912.
Major W..Barrett, 126th Baluchistan Infantry.
Captain P.H.Taylor, Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the
Governor.
A gentleman of the name of Ismail, a large
Punjabi Police Orderly of His Excellency's, came to see me
yesterday and asked me to write to you about him.
The man
in question, whom I know very well, did good service in the
old Hong Kong Regiment, and then on its disbandment in India
returned to Hong Kong and took in service in the Hong Kong
Police. What he is now after is to be allowed to reckon
his past service in the Hong Kong Regiment towards
pension