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open fire on junks refusing to stop for search, etc.
If desirable, the Inspector General vill visit Hong Kong
and Macao in connection with elaborating plans for the
development and improvement of the local Launch Service;
but the question of the land Frontiers prosents much greater difficulty, and should be dealt with specially as outlined
below. The question of the Launch Service, however, is
less difficult than the Frontier guard question, and it is
impossible for the Inspector General to submit nov definite
proposals until further investigation indicatos more clearly the lines on which development should finally progress.
As the Director-General is aware, the Custons' Administration
had many arrangements to make in connection with the
introduction of the new Tariff last Spring, and while it
vas early recognised, of course, that the Customs
Preventive Service must be completely re-organised,
other Tariff questions were still more pressing and had to
be dealt with first, and it was not possible, therefore,
for the Inspector General to attend to everything at the
beginning!
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The Inspector General now suggests that the whole
question should be taken up and not dealt with "pièce-meal"
and that he should detach a Commissioner to personally visit
the land Frontiers mentioned above, examine local conditions
on the spot, ascertain, in consultation with local
Commis.icnors,
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