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Re

Mar 12 FC 08

27th October 1908.

No.486. V(916)

Sir:-

On receipt of your despatch No.290 of June 20th

last, I lost no time in requesting His Majesty's Con-

suls General at Tientsin and Shanghai to furnish me

with a report upon the Indian Police in those conces-

sions, and directed their attention especially to the

question asked by you, viz: whether, since the new

rules for recruiting policemen in India have been in

and

operation, there has been any decrease in the number

of eligible recruits who offer themselves locally,

any check, apparently, upon their migration further

eastwards.

I now have the honour to submit the following

information on these points which I have received from

Mr. Ker and Sir Pelham Warren.

The new scheme has not been in operation in

Tientsin long enough for a definite opinion to be

formed as to its eventual success, but the experience

Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,

&c., &c., &c.

gained