What it says
Dyer told the committee that he opened fire without warning, kept firing until his ammunition was almost spent, about 1,650 rounds, and did not see to the wounded. The government’s count was 379 dead. The majority condemned the firing without warning and its continuance; Chimanlal Setalvad, Jagat Narayan and Sultan Ahmad Khan wrote a sharper minority report.
What it proves
It fixes from the Raj’s own record what happened at Amritsar on 13 April 1919. The Congress inquiry put the dead at about a thousand.
