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recovered. Now, if such a tax came to be levied, in addi- 

 tion to the amount of the damage, the cost of collection and 

 the expenses of the Police, who will be quartered in the 

 villages till the recovery of the tax, will be recovered from 

 the Sinhalese people. 



" Moreover, if there are witnesses to say that they 

 joined the rioters, cases will be instituted against them (i.e., 

 in the event of non-payment.) 



" R. B. HELLINGS, 



" Special Commissioner and Government Agent, 

 " Southern Province. 



" June 22nd, 1915, Galle. 



" H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 



" Colombo, Ceylon." 



30. The houses of the most respected and leading Sin- 

 halese citizens have been searched without legal process and 

 without any charge being laid against them, under the plea of 

 Martial Law. These searches were conducted by European 

 Town Guards, accompanied by Indian Punjabi soldiers and by 

 police. The houses were visited in several instances when the 

 master, was away and the ladies alone were present. The ladies 

 were not treated with civility or consideration. 



31. The house of Mr. D. S. Senanayake, a prominent 

 Sinhalese landowner and country gentleman, the son of the late 

 Don Spater Senanayake, Padikara Mudaliyar of the Ceylon 

 Government, was searched on June i2th last. He was absent 

 from the house, and his wife (a member of the Dunuville family 

 and a daughter of the late Mr. R. Dunuville, some time District 

 Judge of Matara, and late Secretary of the Municipal Council 

 of Colombo) was dressing in her bedroom upstairs, when an 

 armed Punjabi soldier threw her door open. Greatly alarmed, 

 she was rushing out of the apartment when the Punjabi aimed 

 his rifle and threatened to shoot her. Having known how 

 Sinhalese were shot down by the Punjabi soldiers for running 

 away when challenged, she had the presence of mind to stop. 



