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ry as opium smoking, though it is developed at a much earlier stage of life. It is a vice which defies prohibitory legislation for it permeates—even opium smoking does not—every rank of society from the highest to the lowest.
6. Under these circumstances if reliance cannot be placed on the incorruptibility of the Police and upon the Chinese employees in the Public Departments, the endeavour to suppress gambling, or to confine it within reasonable limits, becomes a Herculean task, quite beyond the reach of the most upright and powerful Government.
7. With these few introductory remarks I have now with much regret to inform you that within the last two months a discovery has been made which reveals