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the Officer Commanding, and ordered not to criticise the action 

 of the military in future. 



46. The printed Proclamations declared that those found 

 after hours without a pass in the streets would be liable to arrest 

 and imprisonment (paragraph 21), but shooting by Punjabi sol- 

 diers has become so common that a military officer declined to 

 give passes to a prominent lawyer and his servants, on the 

 ground of their liability to be shot, though having passes. 



According to information obtained in the Maradana Ward, 

 Colombo, a young Sinhalese operative, as he was let out of his 

 workshop after 6 p.m., was challenged by the Punjabi soldier 

 in the street. He did not know how to answer, and was seized 

 with fear, and, as he turned to run, he was shot down dead. 



Many Sinhalese, ignorant of the nature of a challenge, and 

 seized with panic at the sight of an armed Punjabi soldier, were 

 shot. They turned to run, and were shot down. 



47. The train which carried the Inspector-General of 

 Police, Mr. Dowbiggin, who was returning from Kandy on 

 June 3rd (Thursday), with a number of armed Punjabi sol- 

 diers, was held up by hundreds of unarmed, excited villagers 

 crowding on the line between Mirigama and Veyangoda. The 

 military Punjabis opened fire, and numbers of the Sinhalese 

 were shot down dead. The number of those killed by the mili- 

 tary has not been officially announced. 



Extract 'from 

 "The Ceylon Morning Leader^ Saturday, June ^th 3 1915. 



An incident of the disturbance occurred on Thursday evening 

 between Veyangoda and Mirigama. Mr. H. L. Dowbiggin, I.G.P., 

 was travelling down from Kandy to Colombo with some constables 

 and men of the 28th Punjabis. The train was held up by a big 

 mob of several hundred natives who stood on the line. The engine 

 was brought to a standstill and the Punjabis got out and opened 

 fire on the crowd,, which dispersed in all directions, leaving 35 

 killed and many wounded on the spot. 



(The writer is instructed that the total of those killed is much 

 larger than 35.) 



48. One of the severest regulations that suddenly came to 

 be enforced by the police under Martial Law is a rule of the road 

 by which people are forbidden to walk in the middle of the streets 

 on pain of being lashed (Proclamation, par. 21). No sufficient 



