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largely
inercase until it
becomes, intolerable even
ourselves.
31.
to
But long before this point is reached the position will become much more:- intolerable to China. For it is
to be noted that the perpetrators of the graver forms of crime, who already
in considerable -
numbers make their home
here, do not as a rule commit
serious breaches of law in this Colony. They merely
use
British
British territory
As
basis of h
their operations in China; and,
ad we
Know
from past
experience, they
(
come here in
specially large numbere for this purpose when the advent
of
some energetic administrator
of their Drasonian system revers
residence at home more
ordinarily dangerous.
32.
than
For the above reasons
I hold that the policy which
I venture to recommend,
without a grave sense
not
the
of responsibility