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impose regulations regarding the management of those wings which it does will give it control over them. At present there is no control at all.
(b) The risk that is run in allowing Chinese to deal in arms, and to have their arms stores in the Chinese quarter of the town. At most numbering several thousand these stores might loot and supply themselves with arms and ammunition before the Police would have time to interfere.
The legitimate requirements of the Chinese community for arms are very small, confined to junk owners who have need for arms to protect themselves. It is suggested that a monopoly to sell arms to Chinese be granted to a European Firm under certain fixed conditions as to prices and quality of the weapons supplied.
Chinese purchasers of arms should be required to forward a requisition to the Captain Superintendent of Police for such arms, and no arms should be sold to Chinese except on production of a requisition endorsed by the Captain Superintendent.
(C) The danger which the Colony is liable to of being invaded and over-run in time.