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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Reference:-

CO 537/210

COPYRIGHT NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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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

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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

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