CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12] — Page 37

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4.

I had not the slightest

doubt that an armed Police

ought

to

Force, such as ours have been able to put down

any

any such disturbance without military assistance; but when their Commanding Officer has confidence in himself

so little confidence

and his men as to be the

it to ask for such assistance,

first

and when all

my

advisers

who have had much longer

experience of the Colony

than

I have, concurred in the

expediency of providing it, I seareely think that I could well have acted otherwise than

in accordance with their

opinion.

5.

Since I have become

better acquainted with the

condition

of the Police Force, its government, and the manner in which it is regarded by the Chinese population, I have

become the more convinced -

that the advice

given me

was under the circumstances

expediency

sound