CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 327

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organization of the Police Force, it was considered advisable to leave Sir Richard Gravis Macdonnell intirch junfettered by any firevious action..

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If the whole Chinese Police is to be faralyzed by so trivial care as is here represented by Mr Deane, the sooner

we get rid of them the better. At the same time, however

I take leave to differ mort entirely with Mt Diane, imputing the failure to his detective system which is utterly untrustworthy and rotten..

Personal Knowledge

of the delinquents faking in and

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out of the Jail is what the Police

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AvruĖ

as mort clearly demonstrated at the late outburst of Crinne which Mr. Dongles, the Jail Superintendent, and his Apiscane Me Grey, fint an end to by the arrest of a few well known Jail birds, whilst the Police were groping in the dark for information with their so called detectives._

Paragraph 6..

On the disallowance of Ordinance Ny of 1870, 13 doubtful characters

were released from dittution without that notice to the Police which is

now insisted upon

in all

Cares.