CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 616

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Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to—

The Under Secretary of State,

War Office,

Pall Mall,

London, S.W.,

and the following number quoted.

C.O

611

19877

bee 11 NOV SO

War Office,

Pall Mall, S.W.

7/D/790

sir.

9th November, 1895.

With reference to your letter of the 28th

ultimo, No.18101/95, transmitting a copy of a despatch

(No.277 5th September 1895) from the Governor of

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Hong Kong, submitting recommendations from the Acting

Commandant of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps that

the qualifying period of service for the Volunteer

Officers Decoration should be fixed at 15 years in the

case of Hong Kong, and also that the "Volunteer Long

Service Medal" should be extended to Volunteers in

that Colony on the terms mentioned; I am directed by

the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for

the information of Mr Secretary Chamberlain, that he

concurs in the reply proposed to be made to the

Governor of Hong Kong as regards the Volunteer Officers

Decoration as set forth in the second paragraph of your

letter under reply.

As regards the Volunteer Long Service Medal,

I am to add that the Army Service of Colonial Volunteers

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

cannot

S.W.