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they incurred if they took service with a State at war with
Great Britain. The Municipality of Shanghai pointed out
that apart from the constabulary employed by the Council
there was a large number of Sikhs and Mohammedang in
private employ as watchmen (as also is the case here) and
they suggested that these men should be borne on the
strength of the Municipal Police, and therefore become
subject to compulsory repatriation at the close of their
service. To neither of these excellent suggestions does
effect appear to have been given.
It would clearly be of no practic-
-al value for the attainment of the objects in view, for
this Government to refuse to enlist any men locally, so
long as hundreds of eligible recruits reach the Colony
and seek employment on the Railway, or in private capaciti-
-cs as watchmen &c or emigrate further Eastwards. On the
other hand the cost to this Goverment of enlisting in
India under the scheme proposed is estimated at Rs. 8,152
(say $5,720.70) per annum while the delays and correspond-
-ence consequent on the procedure laid down, (which I have
quoted in paragraph 2) render it practically prohibitive.
I venture to observe that I am
personally in cordial sympathy with the objects the Indian
Goverment
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