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July, 1946, when they invited the War office

to raise with the Colonial Office, the question

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of the recruitment, strength and composition

They may gratta, Lower of/Hong Kong Police Force, bearing in mind their '

necommendation that the proportion of European

personnel should be as high as circumstances permitted, They also agreed to defer consideration of the proposal to withdraw British

Forces from Hong Kong until the organisation and

training of the Police Force was nearing

completion.

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For hocetely this Hong Kong Defence Committee's femper

Since the Chiefs of Staff meeting on the

25th July, we have received a letter from the

War Office asking us to consider the question of

raising a Police Force or Gendarmerie for the

Defence of Hong Kong if the Army formations are withdrawn. We have replied by forwarding to the the paper to the War Office the Hong Kong Defence Committee paper

And as a penicet nothing farther (P/1/140/G(F)1,), (4ogether with the copy of thre

is likely to be ome BqVernon Deneralla telegram) – We have stressed with

the War office the views expressed in that paper

regarding the strength of the Garnison required in

Hong Kong. We have suggested to them that

further consideration of the matter should be

deferred (until the comments of the S.E.A. Defence

Committee on the Hong Kong Committee's report have

been received and studied by the Chiefs of Staff.

That is where the matter rests at present.

reached on about

the bra time.

We shall, no doubt, receive the observations of the S.E.A. Defence Committee on the Hong Kong Committee's plan in due course, and when these have been considered here, we w11 let you know how matters stand.

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