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be charged

with

the cost

of damage & loss sustained by the

Engine which was used

in Barrack fire

must be acknowledged that the best

arrangements are liable to failure

in the confusion which

must

It must be acknowledged that the best

arrangements are liable to failure at such

a wear-

ing time as during

The extinguishing the fire at Kong Wong in November

Sir Somerset Pakenham Pakington

admits the possibility that the

losses might have

been avoided had there been better

management on the part of those men who were on actual

duty at the time

of the fire, but

at the same time

the Engine was used

in quelling fires

endangering the property of private

persons

It forms no part of

the duty of the Troops to

wish it to be assumed that

some stain might have

been avoided had there been better

management on the part of those men who were on actual

duty

The thinks that it

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