Their efforts to maintain law and order have been feeble and half hearted. After they have been notified of the troubles, hours have elapsed before a guard has appeared upon the scene, and although this was permitted to continue until in every ease the premises were a perfect wreck practically everything that could be stolen had been taken from the place. When finally the soldiers arrested some of the looters it brought"the work of destruction to a sudden stop.
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