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nese

Police

Officers still serving in the Force whose

names

appeared on the list of recipients of hush money from the Keepers of an illegal gaming house in Wa Lane together with a copy of a minute by the Captain duperintendent of Police in which he recom- mends that, with the ex ception of the Indian Ser- geant Major Jewar Singh,

these men should be re-

Lained

Encl: 2

9th May

1898

tained in the Police Force

and be eligible for promo- tion subject to their con- duct being satisfactory

a reasonable period

during a

of probation.

Personally I a

I am in

favour of leniency being shown to all including the Indian Bergeant Majer, for

a number in a book un-

supported by direct eviden ce however much it may justify suspicion, is quite

insufficio,