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Reference:-
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
CO 537/210
COPYRIGHT NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION
Reference:-
CO 537/210
COPYRIGHT NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Nor
Kant 303/70
Hongkong Enfidential hos 2017/
878
It is requested that in any further commu. nication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to-
The Under Secretary of State for War;
War Office,
Pall Mall,
London, (8.W.)
WAR OFFICE,
19 Elpril 1979
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"Jam directed by the Secretary of State= for War to acknowledge the receipt of your Secret and Confidential letter of the 8th February relative to the proposed appointment of a local Committee in HongKong to consider the question of enlistment of auxiliary forces to supplement the Regular garrison of that place.
With reference to the 2nd paragraphe
of your letter, I am to observe that the Opposition of Sir Thomas Wade to the Enlistment of Chinese at Hong Kong refer less appened to Colonel Stanley to refer
I think it obviously
With larger
proposal to the larger proposal to recruit a
than to the
more face / 20,000 men for service in India restricted proposal
The Muder Keretary of State
Coloniae Offer
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