10.
373
11.
the report is as
Sir.
#
minute
#
follows:
"I reply to H. E. the Governor's
on C.S.O. N?' z
• 83773 v
"1
Composed of tiles, brickbats, jalousies,
" verandah beams and foliagen-
At 2. 50 A. M., however, when the
barometer showed that the heaviest blasts
#
I have the honor
"
to report that I did refure to risk the
"
lives
of
the Police under
#
"
my
Command
by ordering them to leave the Barracks
ފ
in the height of a Typhoon
* 1am.
#
"
#
on the 23rd instant.
on
af
Mr Rowett entirely overlooks
the fact that the danger did not so
much arise to persons living
the
" Praga going outside their doors to
"
render aid,
as
to a body of
wen
of
taken through the Streets
the City,
when, in the words of a local News " paper, - the atmosphere
Was
principally Composed
"wind had passed, I did turn out the
and we went over, all parts of
"
"
win
the town, in some places. our waists
"/
in water, and
鷕
"
experiencing
the
greatest
difficulty in passing along the roads -
I have further, to observe that
"at least 36 of the crews of the "Albay" "had
"
"been already saved when the report was made, and that the danger of a " second Steamer was a mere conjecture-
"
"I have had a
a
good deal of
experience in typhoons, and I have not
Dayang
that
the slightest hesitation in " I should have been quilty of the most
wanton
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.