The Archive · 1908

The Training Depot

As the bui lings at the Training Depat have "':-ady been fally described in these es, it is unnecessary to repeat the devsiis of bricks and mortar. Saffice it to say that the Depdt consists of " large drill-ground, with buildings for Indian and Chinese recruits extending along one side and seress the far end. The Chinese quarters will accommodate about 100 men, bat as 128 are now undergoing instruction, about a score of the recruits who lire in the neighbourhood are permitted to out of barracks, There who are "in residence" are sodom

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