Conclosure
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List of cases in which the Police were obstructed or at-
-tacked in the discharge of their duties.
6th. January, 1912:
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At about 11 a.m. yesterday morningthere here about 600 emigrants waiting on the Praya outside the Harbour Office. They were to be admitted in batches for examination. The Harbour Office coolies and seamen were removing a spare propeller across the road from a launch. The Police on duty had to clear a path through the crowd. While engaged in doing so, stones were thrown by the crowd, and one Chinese seaman was struck on the head. There were 4 Indian Police there, and they were forced to draw their revolvers. On their doing so, the crowd dispersed. The stones came from the middle and back of the crowd, whom the Police could not get at. There were probably a good many loafers and boarding house runners mixed up with the emigrants.
In the afternoon a Chinese emigrant was brought up
to the Central Station, and charged with assaulting I.P.C. 868 Pakhar Singh while in the execution of his duty. This affair took place inside the Harbour Office while emigrants were being passed. The emigrant refused to obey an order and struck the Indian Police Constable. The man was let out on $100 bail and failed to appear at Court this morning. The bail was esteated.
th. January, 1912: A man was sent to Hospital this afternoon having
had his right hand seriously injured in an explosion at No. 14, Cresson Street, Wanchai, 1st. floor. This floor had been occupied until a day or two ago by people who came there from Canton about 2 months ago. Since then the floor has been vacant. The injured man is a carpenter who had been sent to this floor to make some alterations in a partition. While engaged in doing so he appears to have struck some substance which exploded. The explosion was not a large one and no damage to speak of has been done to the
room in which it occurred. The Police have found a small mould
there, which seems to have been used for manufacturing bombs, and
also a piece of a label of Nobel's Explosives. It seems probable
that the departed tenants of the floor, who had got a notice stuck
up over the door that entrance was strictly prohibited (or words