safety be reduced:
B. The Auxiliary Fores must be an existing disciplined body, and cannot be extemporized or partially Extemporized at the moment of re- quirement.
C. The same control and power that is exercised over European Troops, must be conferred in the case of Auxiliaries, otherwise there can be no real discipline or effic. isney.
my
answers bother committer's questions are based on these three Essentials.
that au
at.
1 and 2.
I am not aware tempt has ever been made to
raise withers a
Malay
or a Chiuse
Corps for Europrace combatant purposes, and recommendations on the subject must therefore necessarily be boa certain extent speculative.
Wherever Europeans are in the minority as here, the safety and efficiency of a farrison com. posed of mixed troops are un- 'doubtedly promoted by associating Corps of different hationalities and Religions. Could I therefore bring myself to believe that a Chinese Corps could ever be so
disciplined and trained in Hong Kong
as bafford whru
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required, afficerat aid in sr. pilling such an
Enemy as may
be naturally anticipated, I should unhesitatingly recommend, at all Events as a tîulation. measure, theat a Chinese Combetant Corps be formed.
I have had four years' Experience of the natives at Hong Kong, and have had opportimiters of observing. them in the Strait Satthimerats and alsewhere, and considering the position ofthie's Island witte reference to Canton and the mainland, and the other point I have remarked
my
auswer to Question 14. I feel convinced that I should not; be doring my duty if I did not pronounce Emphatically against
a scheme.
in
such
my only opportunity of observing the malay's was during the short time I was employed in Perak during the 1875-6 Campaign, and whilst considering theme far superior as material for an Auxiliary Force to the Chinese, I feel diffident in giving an opinion regarding them. with reference to the nations of India it is different. I have served in that Country for several years.
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