Mr. Davies is positive that the [British gunboats never fired indis-Jeriminately at the town. They only fired at the soldiers' emplacements. in evidence of this Mr. Davies Jquotes what happened right at the lend of the fight. The soldiers were retreating up a shallow valley near the Standard Oil building. In this valley is a village of mud huts and Mr. Davies says that the gunboats were very careful to fire at the soldiers all round about the village but never fired into He quotes evidence that next day the people of this village spoke with eulogy of the gunboats for not firing at their huts. If such care could be and wi shown at the end of the fight, when ithe sailors' nerves must have been severely trio a just assumption that equal care was taken earlier in the action,
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