CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12] — Page 89

Letter from the Superintendent of

Police reporting Free under his charge, and I trust

on the state of the

that this letter, with its ruclosures

also transmitted, will be sufficient

sanction

for

the

to gain your alterations and increase proposed

The Chinese Police has been found quite untructworthy, and Vin addition all of them are

Ancmbers

as

reasonably suspected of being

the Trind Society, it is :cvident that their employment as Comitables is injudicious in the present

of affairs around

state

us.

have

we recourse

We must therefore to huropeans and Indians, and in

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order to ensure a better description

of

- there, it is absolutely necessary

to

raise their

wages to the scale

suggested by Mr. May; and in

considering

this

point it is required

to bear in mind that in the Police Ince in course of organization at Shanghae huropeans receive. 30 Drains a month, and that the same cum with rations is the rate of payment to Europeans by the Merchant Ships in this Starbour, while Indian kamen obtain 14 dollars a mouth with rations also.

The proposed armament of the

Force will render its more serviccable

than at present, and I hope that

the arms