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FAITHFULNESS OF INDIAN POLICE 



859 



Foot, 17 years of age, with several wounded. During the fight the 

 women attacked the police with knives and clubs, but notwithstanding 

 the excitement the police simply disarmed them and put them in one 

 of the houses under guard. 



The warmest praise is given the Indian police for their conduct on 

 this occasion by those who are most competent to judge. Some who 

 thus faced death in obedience to orders had near relatives among those 

 opposed to them. Agent McLaughlin in one official letter says that he 



