CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12] — Page 376

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9.

men to save

comply with requisitions for life and Property from shipwreck and also from

Fire there could therefore be other danger to be provided against

ao.

unless it was the

persons in

the pillage by disorderly force, of houses along the

Ded front

out or

Queen's Road: suck a

was however.

dan ger indeed as

very

remote

as all these establishments

have a number of European residents

in them, and most if not all of these

residents

were

-up on the night of the

typhoon looking after the protection of

their own

But

tom

or their employer's property.

admitting that there was such

a danger the way

to meet or avert

it was not to shut up the reserve

Police in the Central Station.

of

the

the

men. should have been marched

to the neigbourhood of the expected danger, and there put under shelter which could easily have been done. But even

a wiser

-course than this

should have bain Ao Ren, and that

was to apply through the proper o channel to the

the Military Authorities

for aid. had he done

that it would have

immediately.. 4th The reason

so

6010

I feel asured been granted

for Reeping the

tueu

in Barracks, given in the answer which I have referred to

is totally

a bove

at variance witho

that assigned, in the Captain- Superintendents quist report, dated

was called

24th September, which was Mr. Rowett's first for th by

letter

to

the