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evartake them, get in front of them,collect them up and bring them back under the escort of your men with fixed bayonets to Kowloon. We shall march then en to the reclamation at Chatham read undor your guard. I shall then ask further instructions from the Captain Superintendent of Police", We proceeded ea far sa the jumoti ɔn ef Castle Peak and Tripe ronda. I stepped my car there te ase that the 'buses were allright because I anticipated somo difficulty, hils waiting there Lance-Sergeant 91 Hasen came up on a motor ayole, I could see twe huses and I detailed banco Fergeant Vason to keep at the back behind all the buses und te roport te me any breakdowns as I was going on ahead. With Captain Bloxham and the two Indian effioers, as originally, I them precooded rn the road for about three miles. I could only sea ene meter bus and that a long way behind, I drove on to a level bit of rand, about 4 miles aleng,and there stepped to wait the 'buses, Captain Bloxham and I,after some consulteti, decided to discard the 'buses as means of transnort. While waiting there one bus managed te orawl up with about four men in it. me five or ten minutes later a detachment of troeps marched up: they had get out of a broken down bus. A few minutes later the Yaumati piokat else arrived on the fire Brigadɔ auxiliary tendor. I Arolded to send the tender back because the weight of the en brought the mud-guards on to the tres. The tonder was not strong enough to carry the weight of the men. All along the road to thic reint we had posred groups of strikers going along. Thore was ene large party ef 150 to 200 men but the majority were in small parties: the whele rond vas like an ant trail with small groups of two and three. Thile still waiting at this point 34 miles along the read several strikers cana up and I stopped them, telling

them they could net precned as they had not a permit to leave the

0.1emy.

I made then wait at the side of the road. A Chinese man

then come along, I called to him bạt he did not step. I went up te him and make' him who he ras and then took from hia pookat the

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