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if discriminatory rates of pay are prescribed.
(ii) The Chinese and Indians who are enlisted as
volunteers belong to a much better educated
stratum of the community than Chinese sappers
and gunners of the regular army.
(iii) The Chinese and Indian volunteers consider
themselves at least the equals of the local
Portuguese and Eurasian volunteers who are
being classed as "Europeans".
(iv) The fact that when the Corps was mobilized on
the general strike of 1925 there was no
discrimination made in rates of pay although even
then there were some Chinese of British
nationality in the Corps.
(v) In the event of mobilization continuing for
any length of time a number of Chinese
volunteers in private civil employment would
lose their positions and would have to rely on
mobilization pay and allowances to maintain
their families, for which pay on the scale of
Chinese of a different class in the regular
army would not suffice.
(vi) Chinese and Indians have joined the Corps
understanding that there would be no
discrimination in the treatment they would
receive as between themselves and Europeans.
(vii) It has recently been decided to replace pay for
camp training by a scheme of awarding efficiency
bonus to all qualified volunteers at a flat
rate irrespective of race.
My Executive Council unanimously endorses
these views and has agreed that it would be a serious error in policy to give effect to any discrimination among the volunteers as to rates of pay. In my view