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GUARDS OFFICE.
80. Return showing the Establishment and Casualties during the year 1935:-
Nationality. Establishment. Enlistment. Death. Resignation. Dismissal. Invalidity. Total Casualties. Strength on 31.12.1935. Russian Guards 37+ 5 3 1 37 Indian Special Guards. 96‡ 11 1 6 3 2 95 Chinese (Wei Hai Wei) Guards 108 1 2 3 96 Indian Police Watchmen 66 2 45 13 2 62 Chinese (Cantonese) Watchmen 477 8 8 2 10 10 29 Total 90 62 17 4 87 734+ Includes three attached to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters, and an increase of two Lance Sergeants for Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's Anti-Piracy Guards.
‡ Interchangeable with and drawn from regular duties, and increased by twelve men for Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's Anti-Piracy Guards.
* No fixed establishment; recruited as required.
81. Anti-Piracy Work. Twenty-six units of Anti-Piracy Guards were supplied to the British India Steam Navigation Company, and twelve units to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company on the Hong Kong-Singapore run. Twenty-one units were supplied to the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company on the Hong Kong-Shanghai run.
The China Navigation Company retained permanent guards on fourteen vessels between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. This Company retained altogether sixteen full units for this work to enable reliefs to be carried out.
During the annual overhaul of the Canadian Pacific Vessels, the Russian Guards normally employed by the Company were drafted temporarily to the Police Training School for refresher courses.