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Therefore to substitute merely two Companies of such Troops for a full wing of a European Regiment appear to me insufficient.
Nor do I believe that its adequacy is at all made out by Lord Hartington's argument that the reduction of the European Garrison at Warlington ought to lead to a corresponding reduction of its duties.
The latter (except perhaps as to mere Regimental guards), and I cannot conceive how a small body of ... can better put down an insurrection than a large force any more than I can understand how they can more effectually garrison and supply the guards for thirteen or fourteen posts where guards do have now to be mounted and where they always must be mounted.
1. Lord Hartington remarks that an improved organization of the Colonial Police may render the employment of a large native force unnecessary. I think it right to say that, whilst admitting every improvement in the machinery of the Executive Government and an additional guarantee for security of life and property, the improvement of the local Police to such a degree as to dispense with Military protection in those cases where Military protection is specially required and specially appropriate, is a contingency yet too distant to affect the argument.
E. Altogether looking to the value of the Military Station here, the central position of Hongkong in the China Command as compared with Singapore, and the magnitude of the ...
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