CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10] — Page 256

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No. 934/1912.

Enclosure 1.

Sir,

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 8th. March, 1912.

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I am directed to inform you, that Ismail Khan,

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a copy of whose discharge certificate consequent apbh the dis-

-bandment of the Hongkong Regiment I enclose has made the attached

statement.

2.

There is no record of any undertaking having be -en given such as that referred to by Ismail Khan: but I attach

a copy of a letter from the Government of India, dated the 13th.

lay, 1903, on the subject of reckoning the service of men dis-

-charged from the Hongkong Regiment who afterwards re-enlisted

into the 5th. Bengal Infantry.

3.

Ismail Khan after discharge went to his home,

married and settled down for 11 months. He then came to Honkong

where he joined the Police Force. He affirms that he received

neither pension nor gratuity on the disbandment of the Hongkong

Regiment at Jhelum: and if that is so I shall be glad to learn whether the Government of India is prepared to grant him any pension in respect of his 15 years' and 5 months' service in the Hongkong Regiment to be added to the Police Pension which he will

earn from this Government.

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I enclose in this connection copy of a person-

-al letter from Lajor Barrett, 126th. Baluchistan Infantry, who served in the Hongkong Regiment and knew Ismail Khan well.

I am etc.,

(sd.) C.-Clemente,

Colonial Secretary.

The Secretary to Government of India,

Military and Finance Department,

Calcutta.