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COPY OF TELEGRAM.
Commander-in-Chief,
CHINA.
To........Admiralty.
Peace Code.
24
Date....85.12.1928.
Read....1445.
Addressed Admiralty repeated Com. in Charge Hong Kong.
650. Your 202 Indian Guards are supplied by Hong Kong Police on application by shipping company requiring guards. They are then seconded from police and placed on ships articles being paid and controlled by the firms. They are kept on police roster and when not employed afloat are employed on police duties ashore. I consider them suitable for river work but not so suitable for
sea going ships see also Summing commission report. Indian guards are not popular with Butterfields and Jardine but they are employed by Douglas line who find them satisfactory and do not ask for military guards. 1625/25.