CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 378

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Municipal Police Trot 14 SEP!

Captain Superintendent's Office.

Shanghai, 3rd. August, 1900.

375

Years, and

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The high estimeazim

in which he is held by The Municipal Concil

Athanghai.

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application for per farmerable consideration

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Sample Servant Hamasahe

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Your Excellency,

I have the honour to request that

Your Excellency will be kind enough to forward an application from me to the Colonial Office for Police

or other service in Colonies under Government.

In 1879 I served in the Zulu War

as Lieutenant (Volunteer) Notal Native Contingent.

Constabulary

In 1880 I joined the Royal Irish

taking first place in the Examination

with marks that have held the record since and served

in various capacities in that Force including five

years as Crime Special Officer attached to the staff of Divisional Commissioner until the year 1897.

In October of that year the Municipal Council of Shanghai applied to Sir Andrew Read K.C.B., Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, for an Officer to take command for three years of the Shanghai Police a body of over 800 men composed of Europeans and Sikhs armed, and Chinese unarmed and I was recommended by Sir Andrew Reed for this post and seconded accordingly for three years,

Your Excellency has personal know- ledge of this Force, of its success in the detection of crime, of the law and order preserved throughout this large Settlement with it's mixed community, of the regulation of great and varied traffic under difficult conditions, and of many other matters appertaining to the efficient working of Police here; and I venture also to recall to Your Excellency's memory various improvements we have, I hope, made within the period of

my command here.

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