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7.
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"Colony, and if his family or village
friends recognized its meaning
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it would not
earry any stigma,
but, I believe, would rather
[{
bring honour as
shewing
him to
be a victim of the foreign devils"?"
Putting aside the manifestly
exagerated statements of the public
and
meeting in favour of branding flogging Chinese, the actual official
allegations, State would naturally rely
naturally rely, were, that
on which the Secretary of
crime committed by Chinese, began to gather to a head when the abolition of branding
made itself felt and reached
in the summer of 1871 extraordinary
the increase of crime bei proportions, the increase of
Derks
being
axet
most marked in the more serious class,
that of Burglaries and highway. robberies accompanied with violence:
that such crimes had become, in 1871, frequent, and were committed in all parts of the town and that the Police had been baffled by the cunning and daring of the criminals.
8.
These grave allegations were unaccompanied by any statistical_ evidence whatever. The authentic facts, however, respeating
crime in 1871 will
be found in the Blue Book for that year, which, unfortunately,
was not forwarded to the Colonial Office until November 1872, that is, several months after the allegations in the Governor's
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