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much the same as it always has been. And here I may perhaps be allowed to point out that the number of offences against discipline among the Chinese police, though very large, was in 1902, nearly equalled by the figures for 1900. Yet whereas the figures for 1902 were made the occasion by Sir Henry Blake of comment, the behaviour of the men in 1900 has been described by Sir Henry Blake, in his annual report, as "Satisfactory", an opinion which, so far as I know, was accepted by the Governor. I found the system of punishments rather more severe when I left. I cannot judge of its effect. I cannot afford to go beyond the established standard or the contingent becomes dejected.
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in the subject. Of the four cases in which Sir Henry Blake intervened, not one had occurred a few days before my departure. I had nothing to say on the eve of my leaving with any of them; I object most strongly to anything in the nature of an assumption, implied or direct, that I should have failed to deal with them adequately or with better judgment. I was trained in police control by men who had learned by long experience the exact standard of severity best suited to circumstances. That standard I have always maintained.
I may say that the recommendations that were made to the Governor by me in the several cases are precisely what commended themselves to me as suitable and proper. Captain Lyons was trained in a less severe school, but the fact that stands out prominently ...
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