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hundreds of the trained men of the Hong Kong
be armlable
St. John Ambulance to called up for service
with the Garrison.
Moreover, any large scale
interruption of the village clinics in the
New Territories would be a matter of consider-
able embarrassment to the Colonial Government,
who would necessarily have to extend to the
villages concerned the present Government
organisation which, by agreement with
has
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Mr. Morris, maintained itself in a few of the
villages in an area not at present touched
by the St. John clinics.
Colonel Sleeman explained the whole
position to Sir Geoffry Northcote before he
left to assume the Governorship, and has his
promise that he will at once interest himself
in the local position and report his views to
the headquarters in London.
Colonel Sleeman explained the dilemma. The Headquarters of the Brigade do
not want to get rid of Mr. Morris unless they
are forced to it. As far as they know he has
not left Hong Kong for China, although
Mrs. Langley herself, with his approval, has
gone to Canton with a section of the local
ambulance. If Mr. Morris defies the Head-
quarters and goes, as he contemplated, to
Nanking or Hankow, the Headquarters may be
forced to take action, but Mr. Morris has been
so successful and energetic in building up
the local organisation, and in extracting funds
for the purpose, that they would not like un-
necessarily to lose his services. No grant
could