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No. 484.

BY AIR MAIL.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

26th August, 1935.

Sir,

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With reference to Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's

telegram No.25 of 7th February, 1932, on the subject of

the Police establishment of this Colony, I have the honour

to request your authority for the following increases in

that establishment, for which no provision has boon made

in the 1935 Estimates:-

One European Sub-Inspector,

One Cantonese Lance Sergeant,

Two Cantonese Constables,

Twenty Indian Constables,

all of whom are required for the New Territories.

2. Crime in the Northern district of the New

Territories has increased in an alarming degree. Up to

the end of June of this year 153 crimes had occurred in

this district, as compared with 201 for the whole of 1934,

and eighty-nine in 1930; whilst outrages (murders,

manslaughters, and robberies) have numbered twenty-four

out of a total of forty-eight for the whole Colony during

the same period. To cope with this state of affairs, it

is necessary to institute at Au Tau a branch of the Criminal

Investigation Department consisting of one European Sub-

Inspector, one Cantonese Lance Sergeant and two detectives

(Constables). It is also considered essential to strengthen

by

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

&C.

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