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hospital treatment and under certain

circumstances passages to India, but they can resign on 6 months' notice, they draw

no pay on leave and are not on the pensionable

establishment. They are therefore

considerably cheaper to employ than Indian

Police.

IV. The China Navigation Co., Ltd.

Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Agents for the China Navigation Co., Ltd., have consistently

objected to the employment of Indian Guards.

They therefore pressed for Northern Chinese

Under European supervision and as Northerners

under European Officers had already been

employed successfully by the Police in 1924, on the senior ships when ships, chiefly West River ships, travelled in convoy, no objection was raised and the experiment was

undertaken. These proposals were originally intended to apply to the 8 ships on the

Coastal service (Shanghai) only but were later extended to cover the 4 ships running to

Singapore.

Guards were supplied during the months

of July and August to 7 ships on the Shanghai coastal run, later increased by 1 and 4 on the

Singapore run:-

British Sergeants......4 (Singapore run) Russian Sergeants.....12 (8 Shanghai run

4 Singapore run)

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Northern Chinese,

1st Class (Corporals 2nd Class

72 (i.e.6 per ship

The