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CO 537/210
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
WAR OFFICE,
Papie
1879.
-the Secretary of State
ye the receipt of your
natial letter of the a tothe proposed local Committee in
her the question of iliary forces to
tular garrison of
ence
to the 2nd paragraphe
to observe that the
Romas Wade to the
ese at Hong Kong I Stanley to refer
sal to recruit a - 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 I. Wade have been reached; but Colonel 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 praising such a force whether composed of Europeans Chinese, Malays or anyother material.
He observes that the Governor in a despatch 1020 of the 13th February 1878 suggested the formation of a Volunteer
force
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