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Every proper precaution, Colonel Smyth promised, would be taken to

protect the police at inquests, and no information would-- be given to Siam Fein as to the individual movements of the police. Finally, Colonel Smyth stated that he wished it to be perfectly olear that he would not tolerate reprisals. "They bring discredit on the police. I will deal most severely with any officer or any man concerned in them." It is impossible to conceive a more proper order in the circumstances. The. Slim Feiners have declared wfa; upon Great Britain, and all that Colonel Smyth did as a good soldier and, moreover, a man of good sense was to remind his men that though there was war it ; must be disciplined and not irregular warfare.