CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 563

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Cypher Telegram to Bir J. Jordan (Peking)

Foreign Office, September 14th. 1916. 7.30 p.m. No. 170.

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Telegram to Governor of Hongkong of the 13th

instant.

Please telegraph your observations and repeat to Sir H. May.

It seems clear that, if proposal materialises, the Labour battalions will be largely recruited from non-British Chinese in the North of Chira, & though these battalions will be nominally British. But there seems no objection to this,

especially in view of your despatch No. 196.