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but in this case Mr.
Phillippo
seems to have overlooked the fact that it was not
a mere unintentional
omission to get a port clearance but
a
serious
deliberate violation of the Ordinance; and furthermore he says nothing of the equally breach of the law committed by the junk master in quitting the harbour after night fall.
11.
Nor does Mr.
Phillippo
appear fully to realize the evil consequences to this community
of the Hongkong Government
allowing
its own
laws to be
violated with impunity by these opium smugglers. Mr. Kerea, the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police tells me that this system has already
tended to revive the
practice of petty piracies, junks engaged in this night smuggling hang about the harbour week after week and when they cannot effect their object take to robbery instead.
When, therefore, the
12.
time came
for
Me
to determine
whether the value of the junk
and
opium should or should not be returned to the former
I owner, gave instructions that his attention should be called
to the provisions of the Ordina...