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Swettenham, the boorish or drunken Governor of Jamaica, must be one of those pig-headed, pompous Englishmen who still think England is the only civilized nation, and that even a suggestion of any other idea is "an insult to the flag." Anything more brutally insulting than the fellow's treatment of Admiral Davis, doing his utmost to aid the suffering and protect property at Kingston, surely never went down to the "credit" of an English official and the. disgrace and shame of the nation.
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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 5
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82Untitled NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 5
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