CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 418

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2261. Meyer Gewal 2008 Henry Percy. Do you hick that if you hat Gurnee troops in Honghong, they woul be of any

use against an attack mode by European forces ? Yes, very preat Think. It Cure force, if they were his explined auff dritted, winds be as fire troops certainly as the Silihs, in

The Siliks, in fact they words be next to Europeans.

2262. did not the Chinese respect the Saloochee ongs,

ment in Hongkong 3 Thelwo hugers; I was not

Fbelieve there with them.

2263. Lord John days. Whre Mure any Beloothers?

Yes, et Shanghai.

2264. Colonel Perry Herbert. Your recommendation

would be to supply

the

weat of native troops for China i belf? I am inclined to kick so, I am inn dined to think in Chinese have be making of

fine dass of soldiers in them, and moreover understand the Conguage, as wads be able to show up, and give information as to who were the bad suen in the island. Now with our own kroops and

Pedian troops who const speck a

very

Mey

word of the language, beey cannot tell who is a

be Arnese soldiers

bad man and whose not

rit

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