§ 17. Mr. Dribergasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will instruct colonial governors that, in industrial or political disturbances involving danger to life and property, the police are not to use firearms until other more humane methods for restoring order have been used in vain.
Mr. Creech JonesI addressed all Colonial Governors in this sense over a year ago. The use of humane methods of restoring order, with recourse to fire 378 arms only as a last resort, is the accepted Colonial practice.