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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