CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7] — Page 272

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I have the honour to transmit the enclosed

copy of a letter from the General Officer Commanding the Troops in

South China covering the Annual Report on the Hongkong Volunteer

Corps for the year ending 31st. March, 1914, and a report by

Captain F. C. C. Rogers, M.V.O., Inspecting Officer under Section

7 of Ordinance 25 of 1910, on the Volunteer Reserves.

2.

The slight increase in the numbers of the

Volunteers represents the result of the special efforts to stimulate

recruiting for the Force adumbrated in my Despatch of the 21st. of

May, 1913. These efforts took the form of sending out Circulars to

126 selected men known to be eligible for the Volunteer Corps, and

to 104 others eligible for the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves. There

are many others eligible for both Corps but it was deemed advisable

to approach the most eligible first.

3.

The result was disappointing, and with the

General Officer Commanding I deplore the fact that so many

Englishmen are content to stand idly by amusing themselves during every spare minute of their time with golf sticks and other

accessories of outdoor recreation, while others prepare to defend them. A very small proportion of the time spent on the Golf Links alone and devoted to the modicum of training demanded of Volunteers

and

E RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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