TI, M, Police Court was crowded with Indians on Monday morning! when the Magistrate, Mr.
Morris, took his seat on the bench.
On the table immediately in front of the Magistrate was a bundle of Bi walking sticks, one of which would undoubtedly make Sir Harry Lander feel small.
They were the property, before they were confiscated, of seven. barly Sikh Watchmen, six of whom stood in the dock, the seventh being in hospital. The six before the Court were all in a distressful condition, all their heads bandaged and blood soaked collars, collar bands and coat collars.
The charge against them was disorderly conduct" in Pingliang Road at 6.40 p.m. on Sunday. What really happened was that in a factional row, they smashed each ether over ' the head with their sticks.
After the police had told the Court that the men had teen raught into Yangtszepoo Station in an exhausted condition after a fight which aroused the whole neighbourhood, the watchmen'were allowed to' give their version of the affair.
'One said, that he did not know why chis employer had made -him! ques No.' i' watchman instead of another] man, but this fact had apparently] roused the ire of prisoner No. 3 and that worthy had gone to the former's mill and inviting him to corns outside said: be, woul pro. mute bim poperis ae the sabe of. No. 1 watchman." "The No. 1 ac-
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