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not rather tend towards the encouragement of gambling than towards its suppression, I requested the Acting Captain Superintendent to make a report on this point, and he reported, as did also one of his Chief Inspectors, against this Secret Service money being given to informers of gambling cases. Since then I have declined to grant it any more for this particular purpose.
There can be no doubt, as I have already remarked, that gambling is indulged in by many in Hongkong, nor can this remark be confined to the Chinese. That there has been any particular increase in the number of Chinese gambling houses lately I am not prepared to say, but their number has probably not diminished. The gambling that
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