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I have the honour to transmit the enclosed
copy of a letter from the General Officer Commanding the Troops in
South China covering the Annual Report on the Hongkong Volunteer
Corps for the year ending 31st. March, 1914, and a report by
Captain F. C. C. Rogers, M.V.O., Inspecting Officer under Section
7 of Ordinance 25 of 1910, on the Volunteer Reserves.
2.
The slight increase in the numbers of the
Volunteers represents the result of the special efforts to stimulate
recruiting for the Force adumbrated in my Despatch of the 21st. of
May, 1913. These efforts took the form of sending out Circulars to
126 selected men known to be eligible for the Volunteer Corps, and
to 104 others eligible for the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves. There
are many others eligible for both Corps but it was deemed advisable
to approach the most eligible first.
3.
The result was disappointing, and with the
General Officer Commanding I deplore the fact that so many
Englishmen are content to stand idly by amusing themselves during every spare minute of their time with golf sticks and other
accessories of outdoor recreation, while others prepare to defend them. A very small proportion of the time spent on the Golf Links alone and devoted to the modicum of training demanded of Volunteers
and
E RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c...