CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2] — Page 228

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state of things here. I wrote merely as a man in the street observing without any real inside knowledge. We had experienced the outbreak of excitement on the false rumour of the fall of Peking. I saw frequently a truculently insolent attitude of the people travelling on care and O elsewhere towards Europeans, and received various complaints of the

same. I saw and knew of disorderly crowds resisting practically every attempt at arrest made by the Police. I knew how both Police and Chinese rowdies regarded the usual sentences given at the courts for disorder. I saw angry knots of people being haranged in the streets after any little disturbance, in particular the one by the Central Market. I knew of many cases of snatching from European ladies. I knew of the rush of Europeans to buy firearms and other minor indications. I was ignorant when I wrote of any special measures being taken or intended, whereas almost immediately afterwards the very mesures most people were hoping for were taken and had an excellent effect. I would ask His Excellency in reference to

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the hastily expressed (and since cancelled) opinion of mine, to take into consideration test the nature of my work involving as it does fairly close observation of large numbers of the lower class Chinese, would tend to make me take a pessimistic view of things at such a time. I personally regret now that this matter has been taken up officially and wish to take this opportunity of expressing apprecia- -tion of the kind consideration I have always received in my dealings with the Government in all its departments.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) J. J. Stodart Kennedy,