Colonial office,
Downing Street,
v.w.l.
18th December, 1946.
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pour .r. Gilchrist,
You may remember that in 1944 and the early part of 1945 we had some discussion about the Indian Contingent of the Hong Kong Police Force. The only reference of yure which I have been able to truce is zol 10785/45 (and this was a letter concerned only with the rate of exchange at which don, Long pensioners shruld be paid in india) but you will doubtless recollect tout
you were good enough to arrange for er. v.l.bangon, C3- then commissioner of police designate, to visit India for the purpose of sooking the help of the
unjab police authorities in a scheme by which about 300 ex-Hong sung vunjabi
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lice then on
abolition terms were t. be telgurarily engaged by the unjab rolice force pending the time they would be required in Hong Kong.
since then of course there have been Kany developments. at one time during the Military
dministration the Commander-in-Chief recomended that the whole project for the recruiting and training of indian .olice shɔuld be abandoned in view of the number who had expressed dissa tiafuoti ›n with the terms of service and dubts about conditions prevailing in Hong Kong. In June last, however, Civil Government having then been restored the Ouverner reconsidered this view and recommended the adoption of the policy originally decided on in 1945, namely that an Indian Contingent should
IN. OILGIRIOT, Day,, U.I.8.
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