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Playd
6 July
Head Quarters,
South China Command,
Hongkong, 7th. May, 1914.
Your Excellency,
In continuation of my letter No. 3458 (G)
dated 25th. February, 1914, forwarding a report on the Hongkong Volunteer Camp at Hang Hau
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9th. to 18th. January, and an
Artillery Report, I have the honour to forward;-
(a). A Report by the Commandant on the Hongkong Volunteer
Corpe for the year ending 31st. March, 1914, together with the
Regimental Musketry Return.
(b). A Report by Captain F. C. C. Rogers, M.V.0., 2nd. Bn.
the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on the Hongkong Volunteer
Reserves.
2.
As regards the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, what I saw of them at the formal inspection on the 17th. January, as
well as at the Naval and Military Manoeuvres 23rd. 26th. March,
has confirmed my opinion of their keenness and usefulness, I am
glad to see there is a slight increase in their numbers, but I
deplore the fact that so many men in this Colony are content to
stand aside and let other people prepare to defend them.
Tery great advantage to the Corps would
accrue if the Annual Camp could be located alongside a Camp of
Regulars the Artillery during the regular Movable Armament Camp
and the remainder during Infantry Battalion or Company Training.
I am not sure that in the training of the
Scouts Company it is sufficiently realised how invaluable as
Scouts or Guides in time of war, a body of men would be who knew
the Colony, - or at all events the Island and the Hainland up to
and East and West of a line through Taipo thoroughly. I think more
time should be spent in training them in this direction. It
should be remembered that the regular troops are constantly chang-
-ing, a fact which very largely increases the importance and
value
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