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likely to happen, unless this Government is armed with the powers given by the Deportation Ordinance, 1921,
MOKAND SINGH, who was deported to India under the Travellers' Restriction Ordinence, 1915, returned to this Colony on August 15th of this year. I enclose a copy of a letter dated the 7th February, 1921, in which the Government of India was warned of this man's deportation,
JAGGAT SINGH, who was sentenced to 12 months hard labour in this Colony, was discharged from gaol on the 5th August, 1922: he was ordered to leave the Colony, but on the advice of his solicitor, refused to do so.
Both these men are undesirables of the worst type, and this Government is powerless to remove them, er others of the same kind who may be here or may arrive here in the future. There is no doubt that such persons as these will use to the utmost their sense of security to the great detriment of the peace and good order of the Colony. It is also a fact that some of the local Indian watchmen are already taking advantage of the position in which they find themselves.
5. The Government of India is aware that persons of this type constitute a grave menace in a Colony having a considerable body of Indian troops and having also many Indians in Goverment and in private employment; and the situation is aggravated by the presence here of dismissed Police, Gael Warders, Guarde, and Watchmen, in whom any
predisposition towards political disaffection has the
additional incentive of a personal grievance against the
Government.
6.
In the peculiar circumstances of this Colony,
the ordinary procedure of a judicial enquiry and an Order of the Court is not an adequate method of dealing with
undesirables