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as "resident", who consequently maybe

in some sort regarded as the subjects of Her Majesty,

the

Kindred

of all there people belong to the Conss Destucts

and at

the

moment's nolico

pressure of the Canton

Government would compel them to retain to China. Their

families

would otherwise be

compromised. In the troubles

arising out of

whate

the Lorcha Arrow

Known as

affair in 1856-57

some

80

1

per cent of the seivants of

the Community

were recalled

to their villages. the shopkeepers

aldo.

also. the latter, if people of

substance, paying heavily towards the expense of operations адашев

Even in

limes of peace

I should look for plenty

of decection if discipline

strict, and no

ever

be restored

were

deserter would

во

the Chinese Government,

by the

which, even for Colonial

purposes, is not

منس

likely

کا

the formation of Chimice

Battalions in Hong Kong with

any favor.

There is

to recruiting in

another obfiction the Colony, Governor

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