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commerce and this tending to,

impoverish

and destroy trade in Hong Kang e

1 prnatives have

all admit like promatinees empoverished and destroyed trade in Macao.

That from my experience on the bench I infer that a tone of -dishonesty has bun engendered by Gaming Houses in petty tradesmen

as well as the lowest class and that this tone has infused itself into and demoralised the Police,

"That Gambling is a crime in China as well as in England and that the actual licensing of it being.

a crime lowers the prestige of the English Government and

vame more,

especially

seing that it was actually put down by or goods Governor lately in Canton province .

That the due suppression if not

eradication of Gaming has been

successfully effected in the Straits

I was Settlements as Truss informed by: "Police Magistrate and Superintendent

of Police there and that like care con without the Licensing system keep it under here. That the Licensing system introduced avowedly as in itself. an evil but a lesser evil than the evils then existing has not Licenced those evils whilst it has

itself been

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enormous

as aw.

evil that

-experiment it has failed and