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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Confidential hond 303/1
WAR OFFICE,
April 1879.
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Facknowledge the receipt of your nd Confidential letter of the
any
relative to the proposed nent of a local committed in
my to consider the question of ent of auxiliary forces to ut the Regular garrison of
kes.
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to Colonel Stanley to refer yer proposal to recruit a 20,000 men for service in India
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or elsewhere, and that as at the present time no Chinese are employed as soldiers
except possibly a few among
a few among the 86 Gun hasears now in the Colony, it can scarcely be considered that the narrow limits referred to by Sin J. Wade have been reached; but solonel Stanley in Suggesting a Committee did not intend that it's functions should be limited to the consideration of the possibility of raising an auxiliary force for the defence of the Colony Composed exclusively of Chinese buttons auxions toobtain the views generally of the Committee as to the possibility oraising such a force whether composed of Europeans Chinese, Malays or any other material.
He observes that the Governor in a despatch 1020 of the 18th February 1875 suggested the formation of a Volunteer
force
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