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as "resident", who consequently

maybe

in

some sort regarded

as the subjects of Her Majesty,

the

Kindred

of all those people belong to the Conss Dextuits

and at a moment's notice

pressure of the Canton

Government would compel them freturn to China. Their

the

+

families

would otherwise be

compromised. In the

arising out of

Known as

what

troubles

the Lorcha Arrow

affair in 1856-57

some

80

per cent of the servants of the Community were recalled to their villages. the shopkeepers

also.

also. The latter, if people of

inbetance, paying heavily towards the expense of operations

agamas

no

Even in

limes of peace

I should look for plenty

of desection if discipline

strict, and

ever

ве

мо

restored

were-

deserter would

во

the Chinese Government,

by the

which, even

for Colonial

likely to

purposes, is nos

کا

view the formation of Chinese Battalions in Hong Kong with

any favor.

There is another obfiction

to recruiting in the Colony,-

Governor

PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

Reference :-

mmmmmm.C.O.537/202

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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