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of Constabulary came on board with his staff. I met him
at the mingway, introduced myself and invited him into the
saloon. He announced that he had been sent by the
Viceroy
to keep order. I requested him to begin by touring down all
the notices, to disperse the crowd, prevent it reassembling
and to arrest anybody who showed signs of aneroin 10-
tivity. This hu promised to do uni at once left the ship
to communicato with the Viceroy by telephone.
r. Turner and I then returned to Shameen by launch.
No rudcnoss of any kind was offered to us on our
way to the ship, the crowd in the streets appearing to be
very good-humoured.