CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 553

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forcea hlon boema nott ive only by rifle fire and in no other way. There were no other forcaa at his command Tho public authority that despatched military force to periorta a civil duty on/accasion when no ious violence is expected, accepts a grave rosponsibility. *100, YOU

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must consider what degree of tumult the crond had notunlly ronchod On this subject I will make no e ammont You must judge t'o evidence

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no bona fide story told of these occurrences by Chino so witnesses. You have heard the ovidence of the police officers end of Sentier Captain Bloxham and I Boo no rosson why, in its min features, you should not confidently accept it. The higher ya put do olomont of tumult the more directly will you bo led to the opinion t tho decision to fire was reasonable. gain, while on this point, put yourself in Mr. King's place. It may be th t ccrtia nicotin all tact occur to your own minds which you would like to have trica your solves upon the crowd led yon boon thore. I wish to any at once that a commend to fire, if given without pio, is not to be causider</ un-reasonable merely boonuse some alternative plan in the omorgency

either did not occur to r. King or did occur to him and me rejected as unmitablo. I will also add that he does not seem to have boon

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under any duty to retreat. A public officer fires on an "unlawful assombly" at his own risk. It is equally true thtr bor of

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crowd. The rank and file were mainly orderly person:" a one stic servants in the residences of European people horo. COMO SAVO intimidatedŢsome instigatod, some were intimidated into this migration prohibited by law. It may be that some of them genuinoly smarted under a restriction of their liberty which they rogarded as unjust but however these things may be if you find that on the

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