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& impugned in any quarter, but - they have been lately confirmed
in a remarkable man
nner
in a
letter recently addressed to _ General Cameron, while
· temporarily administering this Government, by M. Gardner,' now acting as Her olajesty's - Consul at Canton, who has been
C
more
employed in China for than twenty years, regarded
ars, and who is
it it
high authority
on all questions affecting the
· Chinese people. We writes :-
A large Police Force is required
in Hongkong for the following.
reasons:-
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"1. It's wealth attracts from
the mainland numbers of Chinese criminals and pleasure - seekers.
"2. Its nea
nearness to and
lasiness
A c e t s s
from large
Chinese towns, where habitual
criminals are
NuNeYOUS.
3. The inhabitants of the "coast in the vicinity of Honghong
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wverc a
few years ago almost all pirates and smugglers.
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