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Enclose a draft note which has been sent to the Officer.

777

I have drafted that Major General Grissom's proposals will be acceptable to you.

Basel Mission Bhara caused enough him to be informed. Thank accordingly.

Sharr 62

Office or Individual.

War 1906

17th July

Last previous Paper.

Wo 1889

Hong Kong.

No. 262

(Subject.)

Strength of garrison

Office for Foreign Department

(Minutes.)

from gr Class.

RECO 26222

IR 18 JUL 06

687

DOMESTIC.

I understand that Lord Elgin has already discussed this question with his Staff and military.

The facts are that since 1883, the Russians had threatened to bring in substitution for a British Battalion.

15-27/08 Sir M. Macpherson reported that an Indian regiment had withdrawn. He and the G.O.C. Infantry agreed that if this was done, the garrison was inadequate for the defence of the Colony.

Committee of 4405/03 The W.O. stated that

W.O.(70)34-20

Next subsequent Paper

Wo 15879

The Colonial Defence Committee had decided that the change in the balance of power in the Far East made it possible.

We informed the F.O. 13675/05. Sir M. Macpherson telegraphed asking for reduction to be postponed owing to presence of Russian fleets.

14427/05 W.O. agreed to temporary retention of battalion.

18488/05. Sir M. Macpherson again objected to the reduction.

26596/05. The C.I.D. agreed to an arrangement suggested by C-in-C that the battalion in Hong Kong...

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As per the instructions, I have:

1. Reorganised the text into proper paragraphs. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "discesand" to "discussed", "fascism" to "Russians", "sutstikukin" to "substitution", "gassisem" to "G.O.C.", "f.o.c" to "G.O.C.", "dia" to "are", "Eutin" to omitted as it seems to be an OCR error, "hatten" to "Macpherson", "telegrafiked" to "telegraphed", "soduction" to "reduction", "C. 1. D." to "C.I.D.", "C.A.C." to "C-in-C"). 3. Fixed spacing issues. 4. Rejoined broken sentences. 5. Indicated missing words with "...". 6. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, HTML is used. 7. No translation of text is done. 8. File references are formatted without spaces (not applicable here). 9. Page numbering is kept as per the original scan (though not fully present in the given text).

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Enclose a draft note which has been sent to the Officer. 777 I have drafted that Major General Grissom's proposals will be acceptable to you. Basel Mission Bhara caused enough him to be informed. Thank accordingly. Sharr 62 Office or Individual. War 1906 17th July Last previous Paper. Wo 1889 Hong Kong. No. 262 (Subject.) Strength of garrison Office for Foreign Department (Minutes.) from gr Class. RECO 26222 IR 18 JUL 06 687 DOMESTIC. I understand that Lord Elgin has already discussed this question with his Staff and military. The facts are that since 1883, the Russians had threatened to bring in substitution for a British Battalion. 15-27/08 Sir M. Macpherson reported that an Indian regiment had withdrawn. He and the G.O.C. Infantry agreed that if this was done, the garrison was inadequate for the defence of the Colony. Committee of 4405/03 The W.O. stated that W.O.(70)34-20 Next subsequent Paper Wo 15879 The Colonial Defence Committee had decided that the change in the balance of power in the Far East made it possible. We informed the F.O. 13675/05. Sir M. Macpherson telegraphed asking for reduction to be postponed owing to presence of Russian fleets. 14427/05 W.O. agreed to temporary retention of battalion. 18488/05. Sir M. Macpherson again objected to the reduction. 26596/05. The C.I.D. agreed to an arrangement suggested by C-in-C that the battalion in Hong Kong... Page 262 ... Page 263 (three lines at the bottom indicating the page number are not present here as the original text does not contain them) As per the instructions, I have: 1. Reorganised the text into proper paragraphs. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "discesand" to "discussed", "fascism" to "Russians", "sutstikukin" to "substitution", "gassisem" to "G.O.C.", "f.o.c" to "G.O.C.", "dia" to "are", "Eutin" to omitted as it seems to be an OCR error, "hatten" to "Macpherson", "telegrafiked" to "telegraphed", "soduction" to "reduction", "C. 1. D." to "C.I.D.", "C.A.C." to "C-in-C"). 3. Fixed spacing issues. 4. Rejoined broken sentences. 5. Indicated missing words with "...". 6. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, HTML is used. 7. No translation of text is done. 8. File references are formatted without spaces (not applicable here). 9. Page numbering is kept as per the original scan (though not fully present in the given text).
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