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largely

inercase until it

becomes, intolerable even

ourselves.

31.

to

But long before this point is reached the position will become much more:- intolerable to China. For it is

to be noted that the perpetrators of the graver forms of crime, who already

in considerable -

numbers make their home

here, do not as a rule commit

serious breaches of law in this Colony. They merely

use

British

British territory

As

basis of h

their operations in China; and,

ad we

Know

from past

experience, they

(

come here in

specially large numbere for this purpose when the advent

of

some energetic administrator

of their Drasonian system revers

residence at home more

ordinarily dangerous.

32.

than

For the above reasons

I hold that the policy which

I venture to recommend,

without a grave sense

not

the

of responsibility