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It appears that for some years past that the Europea
officer in charge has been allowed to occupy a matshed
on a small hill behind the Station in order to avoid
the summor heat. It also appears that 3 out of the
4 Indian constables were married men and were allowed
to sleep out of the station in Chinese houses rented
by them. At the time of the attack the European
sergeant was in bed in the matshed: 1 Indian Police
Constable was on duty in the street, armod with a
revolverz 2 1.P.Constables were off duty in their
rented quarters: the fourth Constable was on Station
Charge Duty. He was on a wharf in front of the station,
apparently unarmed. The robbers seem to have split
up into parties. While one party attacked the Station
other met and shot the I.P.C.in the street and one
of the I.P.C's.off duty who came out of his house
at the firing. Another shot the I.P.C. on the wharf.
The fourth Constable says that he slept through the
disturbance. The Luropean Sergeant, awakened by the
firing, ran down to the village and found the Station
empty and in a state of confusion. He then ran back
to his matshed to fetch his revolver and subsequently
Lot on the roof of a house overlooking the harbour
and fired some 20 rounds at the pirates, who at that
time were on board a launch seized in the harbour
and were about to get away having previously disabled
the machinery of another launch lying in the harbour.
They soon left taking the junk they had come in in
tow. They looted the village pawnshop before they
loft and took away a large quantity of jewellery and
two dead killed by their fire in the confusion. Pending
the enlistment of extra police, conceming which I
telegraphed
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