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9.
men to save
comply with requisitions for life and Property from shipwreck and also from
Fire there could therefore be other danger to be provided against
ao.
unless it was the
persons in
the pillage by disorderly force, of houses along the
Ded front
out or
Queen's Road: suck a
was however.
dan ger indeed as
very
remote
as all these establishments
have a number of European residents
in them, and most if not all of these
residents
were
-up on the night of the
typhoon looking after the protection of
their own
But
tom
or their employer's property.
admitting that there was such
a danger the way
to meet or avert
it was not to shut up the reserve
Police in the Central Station.
of
the
the
men. should have been marched
to the neigbourhood of the expected danger, and there put under shelter which could easily have been done. But even
a wiser
-course than this
should have bain Ao Ren, and that
was to apply through the proper o channel to the
the Military Authorities
for aid. had he done
that it would have
immediately.. 4th The reason
so
6010
I feel asured been granted
for Reeping the
tueu
in Barracks, given in the answer which I have referred to
is totally
a bove
at variance witho
that assigned, in the Captain- Superintendents quist report, dated
was called
24th September, which was Mr. Rowett's first for th by
letter
to
the