CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 108

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inopportune. moment at which to

Moot it; while. Cheia is exposed

to the restless aggression of Fauce, pud

the pokes of England is to maintain

a strict neutrality . _. If Sir Harry

Farkes were to allow any prose osal of

this kuid on the part of an English

Officer of rack to coure to the Recowledge,

the Chinese Government, that s

Government would, rot unnaturally,

conclude that we had joined the Freuch

in a sort of scramble for their

territory, and would ever afterwards

professions of friendships

distrast ours,

and

1,000

and dietin derestedness...

I have

already written to sie Harry Parker explaining that I tad no previous

Žuocoledge 8'' Genarai Sargent's scheme.

and that I protest against its adoption.

(2) Our present Garrison, of about

one thousands men is acknowledged,

to be inadequate for the defence, i

Fine. If war, even of this island, which

owes its partial security mainly to the

Heet ; and England, it is apprehended,

neither would, nor indeed could share.

the additional, four or five thousand

mew required (at the lowest Estimate) to

overawe