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Goverment House,
Hongkong, 28th.October, 1909.
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Зоров
With reference to your telegram
of the 14th. ultimo,' in which you informed me that you
proposed to appoint a Commission to examine into the
whole question of the Military Contribution by the
Eastern Colonies, I have the honour to submit a few
observations. This question occupied my attention soon
after my arrival in the Colony, and I wrote a minute upon
it which (with some modifications) I enclose, in the hope
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that it may be of use to the Committee.
2.
There exists in this Colony a
considerable body of opinion antagonistic to the payment
of the Military. Contribution at any rate in the form in
which it is at present levied. I have stated in my speech
when introducing the Annual Estimates both last year and
this, that in my opinion the Colony has no just ground for
complaint as regards the amount of
US RIGHT HONOURABLE
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