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Cars. 



" Every car not in Military use must have a pass, which 

 can be obtained at the Echelon Barracks. 



" By Order, 



" O. TONKS, Lieut. O.C. Motor Transport. 



Notice. 



" All passes issued to Civilians to be allowed in the 

 public streets during unauthorised hours, signed otherwise 

 than by the Officer Commanding Troops, are invalid and 

 should be returned. 



" L. A. NORTHCOTE, Captain, 



" D.A.A.G., Ceylon Command, 

 " Colombo, 



" June gth, 1915." 



The Officer Commanding, Brigadier-General H. H. L. Mal- 

 colm, instructed his troops not to waste ammunition, but to shoot 

 through the heart any Sinhalese that may be found on the streets, 

 and police authorities gave instructions to their armed constables 

 to shoot down, without a challenge, certain people whose iden- 

 tity was to be gathered from description, if they were found in 

 the streets after hours. Hundreds of Sinhalese peasants were 

 shot down throughout the country, and these orders had not 

 been withdrawn when the writer left Ceylon (July 4th). They 

 have been supplemented in certain particulars, such as to shoot 

 down anyone who dare to laugh at any man in " colours." 



In the search for loot, especially in the inland villages, such 

 as Malwana and Veyangoda, Punjabi soldiers entered the houses 

 of unarmed villagers and themselves looted their most valuable 

 belongings, besides, in cases, ill-treating the women. 



22. All power is delegated to the military, who govern on 

 the instructions of the police, and of certain officials of the Civil 

 Service, who have misjudged the situation and are endowed with 

 extraordinary pow-ers under colour of Martial Law. 



23. The entire Buddhist Sinhalese Press has been sus- 

 pended since about June 8th, and the editors confined in prison. 



