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habitual criminals of this Colony to the gambling haunts in the villages just beyond the boundary of British Kowloon, I represented the fact to Sir Brooke Robertson, who lost no
time in asking
the Viceroy
of Canton
to check the gambling. Mr. Creagh
reports that it has not yet ceased though the tables
have been closed. In his
report
he
says :-
"Numbers of deported criminals frequent this neighborhood; on the
18th instant fifteen
men who had
been branded and banished from
this Colony
were
counted in the
Sham Shui Po
villages where these
men were seen,
are within
a few yards of our territory. Mr Creagh is of opinion that
many
of the night robberies which have been of late years reported in this Colony have been committed by such men.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient
humble
servant
Apes January.
Governor
"streets of Chinese Kowloon and