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wese apparently lease as well as
nt folonel Stanley interpretation to is. His Excellency
no better soldiers,
it them without reans, and it times to leave
mylons and the
charge of the latter. immat Hongkong
ttended with
equenced
whole comespondlace the Committee, a that these
Considering the emanate, too
to attached,
Should
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should receive their most careful attention
as no doubt positions of the highest trust could not be confided to thinese; but this after the expression of their value. as soldiers could scarcely apply to their being mixed up in small bodies with European Defantry.
With regard to the farther questing raced by Governor Alaneng, precruiting Chinese Reguments for server elsewhere Sir J. Wade than at Hongkong, Iaw to state that Sterngly fewer linel Stanley had regarded
Sir Thomas he exterhment
of Chimes Wade's strong obfletion to raising for service such a fores in Hong Kong itself,
at a distance
and I understa gecoment of its close proximity him to think to the Mainland of China, and that there in
hps objection
"Affection in which he himself as well
"
to enlisting as Lord Salisbury, entirely concurs them in as conclusive as to the impoting Houphony of attempting to raise such a force
for this purpose
than for Service in
попрогу
alltwragh even for this purpose.
he would prefer their enlistment in the Shaely.
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