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only be on an Emergency
that
on the spot.
This year's Army
Estimates
contain provision for 176 Sun
Liscars at a cost of £3,035-11-8
10.
2 Force of 1500 man would there. Detail of Officers [Euroku fire cost about £ 25,875 to which
must be added some £ 5,400
the letter in afficiency of a Chiurse force would be discovered.
13.
most decidedly.
14.
1 Field Officer.
Before entering on the many
1 Quarter master & Paymen
1 Adjutant.
6. Suballerus.
piquant for 15 Offiers, making 6 Captains. au Annual charge of £31,275 for the Force.
The payment that would be offered ton Chinese Corps would attract only the ordinary Chinese treet Coolis, who would be tempt. Ed by the opportunity of permanent Employment with it's pecuniary and other advantages. I need scarcely say
that he is destitute
of Every quality required in
soldier.
Chinamen can be as
a
15
IL..
temperate 12.
and tocile as can be desired, until it suits their purpose to be otherwise. Reqular pay and clothing, without hard work, will Keep a Chinese Corps full in numbers and thoroughly subordin. ate, perhaps even more so than au European Reqiurut, as China. men are not drunkards. It will
objections which I hold to the
Employ meat of Chinese as soldiers for the defence of Hong Kong, I wish to state that many of them - would wither not apply to a Chinese Force raised for service in another locality, or might possibly be overcome in time by training and discipline. In India for instance, a Chinese Regiment would be removed from Mandarice influences, and from the contami. nating associations of Civilisu Chinese, and when quartered. with other Troops, it is possible that they would become fairly Efficient. The Chinese have qualities which in a different sphere might be developed and utilized for military purposes, and if any Extruded scheer was in contemplation by which Hong Kong was tobe the training ground for Chinese Requments destined to serve in, and aid in the defence of our other
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