Chapter XXXIV: Appendix: F

Schedule showing the number of Native Policemen in the employ of the Government throughout Matabeleland, at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion, and the proportion of the same which remained loyal in the different districts.

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│ Station. │ Loyal. │ Rebels. │ Doubtful. │
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│ Headquarters 60 │ 45 │ ... │ 15 │
│ Bulawayo district 30 │ 15 │ 15 │ ... │
│ Bulilima " 30 │ 28 │ 2 │ ... │
│ Umzingwani " 30 │ 11 │ 19 │ ... │
│ Mangwe " 30 │ 6 │ 24 │ ... │
│ Usiza " 30 │ 2 │ 28 │ ... │
│ Gwanda " 30 │ 18 │ ... │ 12 │
│ Belingwe " 30 │ Nil. │ 25 │ 5 │
│ Gwelo " 30 │ Nil. │ 30 │ ... │
│ Bubi " 30 │ 1 │ 29 │ ... │
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│ Total 330 │ 126 │ 172 │ 32 │
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These figures must be taken as only approximate, as it is known that three or four of the police were killed by the rebels, and it is doubtful whether others did not meet the same fate. It will not be known exactly what number of the police were murdered by the rebels until the war is over.

For these statistics I am indebted to Mr. H. Morrison Jackson, the native commissioner, who was living on my company's property of Essexvale.

F. C. SELOUS.