The answer is actually the B: As Intruders. The narrator of this story, an English police officer, is relating how he "was hated by large numbers of people" and how "anti-European feeling was very bitter," even though he felt empathy for the locals and felt displeased with his country's imperialistic control over Burma. Therefore, it is possible to contend that the Burmese people view the British as intruders and oppressors, far from friends, customers, and in no way allies.