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the Oin must be confined to militiery mom

operations that the authority is of

the

civil gov't remciens in other respecti consimpaint.

The 9.0.C: litegaren does not therefore afforde

by grounds for reconsidering the attitude which

ра

we have adopted in the recent corn.

As to the general quentin tongres to a

a co

conference

conference

The question of

with be

- it may

be precevraly

: but I don't belive

of

the smallest valles.

the relations

the Troops is not a

of grounde

new me. It was

the thrashed out between the was

oppice & the Colonise office in 1905-6~ (see specially the minutes a difton 26022

& Major Clauson's minute of the after

ti la. O ow 39989

كة

the dift. As a result

X

expecially para s of

of

that con: the

King's Regulations of the fol Regulations were modified I meetural consent of

both depts.

"The

governor of a

X

dominion

or croww colony is the scaple & supreme authority". It is the need for the "exercise of political discretion based on intimate knowledge of local conditions".

in Hongkong

see in the last edition Regu 38-48.

fi

X

7

untitled lathe #ectan

(will the officers military

with an civil, of the (109 Consequently

H.Hp the safety of Colony" - Extract pat

Imaju Cleum's

Авский

the

danger of fiction with the Chinese-

385 which make it wrential that the gove should be supreme, & that militer offers

imperfectly acquainted with local conditions should not disquiet the civil populations

I searching their premises in cases cohere

the gove is not concriced of

the

necessity for such actions. He must chaidhe when & how for the G.0.0 should be allowed to exorciza sfeud £

over the catre popula tire. you

have not, I belive, had the question

randed in other folmes: G.O.C. in Mugtong

seven specially louchy (vee

& aft

Chief Chil

1926

-64

the

metinten oh which are also pertinent), &

↓

all not at all clear that in there

is any case

for a pathan general | rest recouson of the question of

the powers of the Of the Troops over the cire populations.

The attention of the to. O should be drawns to the 1905-6 com.

If the general question is to be thrashed out putter this and better be done on a seaune (paper) TCH. 12/5/15-

I take it that this only Ј