CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 309

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Yes.

I think the Chinese in the Noll

of better Exaterial have

Absende of better Absence fair soldeer like

Stés

quin

no

"" further Censiver to query 2014

I think they would

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Not necessarily. Of course the 1°13

the Officers theow of the

Juve

language the better

I have been

at the head of the Ordnance Start- Deportiment here for the last three Yeard, The Chinese Establishment,

of consists" "Foremen, Pintificers of which consists

And Laboureres ; Iknow nothing of

language, nei

neither de

sunder my

of the Chinese language

Junior que Command, yet we

Prevez

experienced

The slightest difficulty in commu- Ficating

Attr

orders.

The Chimese

Foremen have made themselves ac-

quainted with sufficient English, such as it is, to understand and transmit all orders; many of the

bolize

zu L

five The Chinese

.

only

equally excements and "They will not only learn Anticipate your

Bli fights

bool d

But

orders and wishes.

and Claus Thold N. TH

dis appear before British Aiscipline. Nomore inveterate

A

Clonships

305.

Laction fights

Than

those that prevailed in Ireland some time ago, yet, they never raised their

prospered in pre Military – dis cip live!

heads or

No doubt a

res cruce

Ch

chiese Force is sub-

Jest to be tampered with and influenced sie Case of war with hina - not cs, Whenck, in Case

in Case of war with oiter nation.

Stay

I. should not be for gotton that there are

144.0.000 resident

able

Chinese in Hong Kong, possessing Among property

them the consider a

about dooooo

forho

are, Iren derstand, British born

Subjects (which high privilege they

are mut likely headlessly to throw

Away

to a foreme

Arachis it is mit too much to

not that the Chinese Corps & rised, Amongst there would devo

votedly

assist in protecting their own

relatives.

times, their

Coventrymen, and

Their property, against, at all went,

all outside

I should say tod

ag

Aud como & th

Main-Land, if the Compo had been well paid and well treated . such jo lity we have already,

fidelity

experienced (at the taking of the Jahue Forts from the Corps of

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