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police

and executive staff be ready before rains begin next month. Blake.

No. 10051

(Subject.)

365

DESPATCH.

C.O.

10051

&

RED 22 APR 9

Salaries of Chinese Police

Officers

recommends increase of — requests

reply

(Minutes.)

I think we must accept the

strongly expressed local opinion that the pay & Allowances

of these Chinese Policemen should be increased.

The amount involved is not very great

Telegram

Despatch approved

9.4.7.9/5

Sent

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` tags. 2. Obvious corrections are made (e.g., "mouth" to "month", "recom" to "recommends", "télő" to "telegram"). 3. Spacing issues are addressed. 4. The text is not rephrased or rewritten beyond correcting unambiguous errors. The output is already provided in the required HTML format.