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and I think it will be
necessary to legislate afresh
to meet certain classes
of gamblers who escape at present.
The question of sly Brothels
has
caused me much thought.
Accompanying
the
returns
show
my efforts
towards
their suppression or diminution
have not been in vain, but without extra police help... and some change in the law of evidence
it constitutes a
puzzle as to what
Sly Brothel is. I don't see what one is to do unless
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of houses. The system
of vicarious responsibility is one which prevails in China, but to the English
mind
it suggests great injustices. The ordinance now
before the Colonial Office authorities I think will do much with active Police Co-operation towards rooting out those secret brothels of which petitioners complain. It is worthy of note that the petitioners point out "the secret places of debauchery
are
those where kidnapped
girls
are
by putting pressure
on them
and forced
to avow
and go in