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London Mission, Hongkong.
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31st January,
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In reply to the Questions Connected with the defence of Hongkong forwarded by you
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Committee appointed by
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This
Excellency the Governor, I have the honous to say that my acquaintance with the affairs of the Colony and with Military affairs is not such as to enable me to answer thore Questions in detail but I shall
make a few observations
such points as my
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experience enables me to judge of
Ithink the best available
material
for
an Auxiliary Force is Hakka Chinese. They should not be mixed up with people of other nations, nor even with other branches of the Chinese
The Hakkas are better than the Puntis
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because they are freer from national peculiantus
natural, less bound up in their
more
own Gevemment and civilization
dependent. They
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and more en-
less educated but more manly class than the Punted. And, althongt the event of
trouble with the Chinese Goverment there might be danger of treachery
Hakkar
even with
more with Plantes.
there would be me
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If however a large Force were required,
it-vere
thought desirable to have more than one Auxiliary Corps of
Chinese
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Punti enlistment
and
might be tried after the thakka
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distint from it. This would also tend to prevent jealousy or a feeling of being out of
Colonel W. J. Stewart.
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