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and observation
ques
the result of
the working of been eminently satisfactory.
this Ordinance has
I believe that the lowver
class of gambling dens in the Colony, formerly practically suppressed and that this
has been followe
ved by a divivivution
do numerow have been
of crime.
Lottery tickets are much more difficult to deal with than
ordinary gambling, when a
room or house,
gambling implements,
gambling gambling,
aande
with
visible
money
on the table, are so
proofs
obtaining
so many to assist the Police ii
convictions.
The Police have obtained.
some success in the suppression of
which Agencies
Chinese lotteries for which
had vir established here and
broken, but little success has been
cotained in the suppression of the
sake
anv
of Manila lotteries.. satisfied there is no secret agency for
sale
of bese
the
le
lottery
tickets wi
Horg.
many persons of
the
Long, but respectable class both European native send to Manila, to Shanghai
am and
and elsewhere and procure tickets there for themselves and friends. This it is impossible to stop. I have re
Jof A. Gordon.
Capt. Supt of Police.
Aon : G. F. M. OBrien que. Colonial secretary.