Either a raw, dull winter's morning or the meagre announcements of the event were responsible for a disappointing attendance of the} public at the inspection by the Chairman of the Council, of the Municipal Police Force and the Police Reserves on the Polo Ground during the tiffin hour on Thursday.
The civil force has more that. once been described as a se military body: the spectacle nearly 1,800 of them provided yesterday, the Sikh troopers, with the red and white bannerets "on their lances floating in the breeze, proved quit as satisfying as many. purely mi tary parades seen on the same ground, The Sikh troopers occupied the ight of the line, on whose left were! Grawn up the foreign inspectors, foreign sergeants and constables, Japanese, dismounted Sikh constables, Chinese constables, four divisions of the Police Reserves and the Riot, Gun Division, which is composed at present of both regulars and Specials. In the rear of the Police Reserves ware recently formed Japanese di of the Specials.
AN units having been inspected ky Mr. Fessenden, accompanied by: Capt. B. 1M. Barrett, Commissioner of Police, the Chairman of the Council returned to the saluting base -to decorate two foreign. officers, one Sikh and a Chinese]. niember of the force for gallantry. at for conduct worthy of the highest commendation in surrounding a house in Elgin Road occupied 'a dangerous gang of robbers.
P.-C. E. A. G. Verschaer, for} great bravery and. devotion to duty. in entering alone promis in North Szechuen Road at whi fan armed robbery was. tackling two armed kidnappers in Babbling Well Road on April Chinese P. C. Chuai Vu-lou, for} similar devotion to duty in capturing armed kidnappers Kinnear Road.
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