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Sir William Peel spoke to me
yesterday about the Hong Kong Police Force and in
particular about the filling of the post of Deputy
I.G.P. which has become vacant by the retirement
of Mr. Wolfe and the promotion of Mr. King. Sir W.
Peel expected that Mr. King would recommend the
promotion of Mr. Burlingham for the Deputyship and
this would be supported by Sir W. T. Southorn. Sir
William Peel himself was rather doubtful about the
advisability of this step. He described Mr.King
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as efficient but not a particularly strong man
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and said it was very important that he should have
strong and efficient backing from his No.2.
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He doubted whether Mr. Burlingham would really fill
up to a point the bill as Deputy. He said he was efficient and
mentioned specially the Police arrangements at the
Jubilee, which were admirably managed by
Mr.Burlingham.
At the same time he described him
"as a bit of a bully", and said he was also hampered
by delicate health. For all these reasons he
thought it might be a good thing to bring in a really
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good outsider. He did not think that the absence
of local knowledge would be a fatal obstacle, but he
suggested that if we could find a good man in Malaya
who was used to dealing with Chinese it would be
an advantage. He also suggested that we might
consult Mr. Wolfe. I gave no definite answer to
this proposal and should like to know what the
Department think of it.
As regards other Police Officers he
mentioned Mr. Perdue as we experienced in the technicalities of Police work especially C.I.D. but
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did not regard him as fit for high
command. He also mentioned Mr.Booth
as being hampered by delicate health.
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health.
27th August, 1935.
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I should not be averse from the consider
ation of other candidates with rurling-
ham, but we should have to be quite sure
that any candidate selected from outside
was definitely superior in qualifications
and in particular had adequate experience
of dealing with Chinese In face of ir
Weel's concurrence in Sir T.Sout horn's
confidential report "Very capable and de-
serving of promotion" we should have to
produce something of a paragon from 'lalaya
to justify the supersession of Ir url-
ingham.
HRlowell
18/9 5. To su W. Peel
28.8.55
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2 Sept, 1935.