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did good work trying to persuade them to disperse, but
meanwhile the police rank and file wope being unsettled
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by the crowd's threats accompanied by crude and unmistake-
able gestures, to attack the married lines where the police
families lived. Finally when two revolver shots went
off in the crowd a number of policemen opened fire
without orders, some at the crowd, others over their
heads, killing three and wounding twelve, one fatally.

The mob immediately ran once again to the Agency, leaving
their dead behind them. The events which took place at
the Police Fort are described in the Report of the
Commission of Enquiry of which I enclose a copy.
6. At the time that these incidents occurred the

Political Agent had gone to see the Ruler to urge him
to agree to the appointment.of the Judioial Adviser as
a Judge and to announce the appointment publicly and also
to persuade him to institute a proper hearing of the
appeal of the Muharraq manslaughter cose, The news of
the disturbances however, prevented further discussion,
Thq tfuler. acoepted the advice of the Political Agent to
issue an Ordinanoe announcing the formation of a Commission

of Enquiry to determine the responsibility for the shooting,
and drafted this at onoe. Ho also accepted tho Political
Agent's suggestion that Judge Haines should assist the
Commission. The Commission was to bq composed of the

Ruler's Uncle 3haikh Abdulla bin Isa (Sunni)ftvn Sharia Qalhis,
Shaikh
/Abdul Latif bin Muhammad al Sa'ad, (Sunni), and
Shaikh Abdul Hussain Hilli (Shia), with Judge Haines
advising. The Political Agent then returned to the Agency
/where