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Nairobi, May 20.
Adverse criticism of the administrative and agricultural departments for the methods employed in dealing with discontented Arabs whose copra had been rejected on grounds of its unsuitability for export, 's contained in the Report of the Commission of inquiry into the serious rioting at! Zanztbar last February.
'A British officer, Mr. Ian Rolleston, acting District Commissioner and only son of Sir Humphry Rolleston, Physician Extraordinary to the King, was fatally injured in the rioting, which was precipitated by unpopular Government rules for the grading of copra. In addition, three other} European officers were wounded.
The Commission considers the action of the police in firing on the mob justified, as a possible massacre of all
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