All day to-day soldiers, mounted and afoot and with business-like rifles and machine guns have been patrolling the streets. been displaying the military authorities are determined to preserve peace and that offenders will be summarily dealt with. Even the executioners' guard have been taking personally conducted! tours about the city's streets, Protninently displaying the curved swords or scimitars tied up with red ribbons, symbolic of capital punishment. ' This was calculated to have deterrent effect in case support for the recalcitrant sailors came from any other quarter. 'The presence cof 1,500 marines attached' to the Nottheastern Squadron stationed on the outskirts of the city was one clement of danger.
Tt was noised about that megotiations had been restiméd, abparedtiy
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