Our correspondent E. H. G. ap: pears to be in ignorance as to the steps which have been taken by the Municipal Police authorities to place their men me position to deal effectively with bad characters in the settlement. We dealt with this question not very long ago, but it may, perhaps, be helpful to our correspondent and others briefly to state the facts again. Whilst on night duty all the Sikh Police are armed with carbines and all the Foreign Police with revolvers, while the Chinese and Foreign Detectives are supplied with autem night duty—as far as is concerned—extending from o'clock in the afternoon.
Chinese Police are' not at present armed, but a scheme iv under con. sideration whereby @ sufficiently large number of them will very shortly be. Armed robberies are disturbing things, but. our corres pondent need not fear that the Police authorities are not fully alive to their dangers.
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