14.
071
15
130
of the offence.
have al
already
been made
by
the
point that
Prisoners.
9.
the commission of
This
a
General Gordon strongly insisted
on,
when he asked for the power
of inflicting corporal punishment.
This punishment was
8.
in order to establish
necessary
sary in
the fact that the Government
was determined to continue the
strict enforcement of discipline,
which had been introduced
with so much patient perseverance by General Gordon and to
resist which several combinations
have
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ri
The Committee refer in
their report to an assault
committed.
Comm
on
General Gordon
by prisoners and to an organized plan discovered last December to
set fire to the Gaol These circumstances will be found.
referred to at length in
my-
Despatch N. 103 of 1st April and 4397 of 31st December last.
I have the honour to
10.
forward the report of General
Enclosure 5. Jik Jawy 1887. with 6 spare sopred).
Gordon