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Gauriar, and requesting me to furnish a report on the questions referred to the Generals
I would observe in the first place that Ford Warlington simply informs General Gory that certain "arrangements have been decided on," and then proceeds to detail those arrangements, which I presume are intended to take place irrespective of any opinion which the local Authorities may offer.
3. These arrangements include the raising of fresh Battalions to be added to the Ceylon Rifles, and on that point the opinion of General Guy is requested, so far as regards the best means of effecting that, and the composition best suited to these Battalions.
This is apparently a strictly Military question, and no doubt General Guy will be able to offer useful advice. I should however not fulfil my duty if I hesitated to avow my opinion that the substitution proposed of the additional Companies of Ceylon Rifle Corps for the portion of the 20th European Regiment about to be withdrawn, affords very inadequate protection to the great interests at stake and the vast amount of Stores kept in reserve at Songtong for Imperial purposes.
I cannot help thinking that a good European Regiment equivalent in the moral support which it gives to Government on critical occasions, such as a local insurrection, to two entire Battalions of the Ceylon Rifles, because the Chinese despise the latter as being their inferiors, intellectually and physically.
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Gauriar, and requesting me to furnish a report on the questions referred to the Generals
I would observe in the first place that Ford Warlington simply informs General Gory that cerlain "arrangements have been > "decided on, and then proceeds to detail those arrangements, which I presume
are intended
to taste place irrespective of any opinion. I
which the local Authorities
3.
Shere
arrangements
may
offer.
include the raising
of the fresh Battalions to be added to the
Ceylon Rifles, and or that point the opinion
of General Guy is requested, so far.. regards the best
the
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of effecting that, and
composition best suited to these Battalions
This is apparently a strictly Military question, and no doubt General Guy will
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be able to offer useful advice. I should -havever not fulfil my duty if I hesitated
to avow
an
Now my opinion that the substitution fropored of the additional Companies of Ceylon Score Rifle for the coring of the 20
coring of the 20th European I Regiment about to be withdrawn, afford,
very inadequate protection to the
great interests at staste and the vast amount of Stores Rept in reserve at Songtong for Imperial pumposes.
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I cavida arving of a good Propion Regiment equivalent in the moral suppet
which it gives to Government
occasions, such
as
a
کارایی
critical
lo cal insurrection, to
tivo entire Battalions of the Ceylon Rifles,
because the Chinese despise the latte
an
being their inferiors, intellectually's phyinatly.
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