CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 217

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not rather tend towards the encouragement of gambling than towards its suppression, I requested the Acting Captain Superintendent to make a report on this point, and he reported, as did also one of his Chief Inspectors, against this Secret Service money being given to informers of gambling cases. Since then I have declined to grant it any more for this particular purpose.

There can be no doubt, as I have already remarked, that gambling is indulged in by many in Hongkong, nor can this remark be confined to the Chinese. That there has been any particular increase in the number of Chinese gambling houses lately I am not prepared to say, but their number has probably not diminished. The gambling that

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14 not rather tend towards the encouragement of gambling than towards its suppression, I requested the Acting Captain Superintendent to make a report on this point, and he reported, as did also one of his Chief Inspectors, against this Secret Service money being given to informers of gambling cases. Since then I have declined to grant it any more for this particular purpose. There can be no doubt, as I have already remarked, that gambling is indulged in by many in Hongkong, nor can this remark be confined to the Chinese. That there has been any particular increase in the number of Chinese gambling houses lately I am not prepared to say, but their number has probably not diminished. The gambling that 6. goes 15

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14 not rather tend towards the encouragement of gambling than towards its suppression, I requested the Acting Captain Superintendent to make a report on this point, and he reported, as did also one of his Chief Inspectors, against this Secret Service money being given to informers of gambling cases. Since then I have declined to grant it any more for this particular purpose. There can be no doubt 5. 215 doubt, as I have already remarked, that gambling is indulged in by many in Hongkong, nor aan this remark be confined to _ the Chinese. That there has been in crease any particular in in the number of Chinese la Jam lately don Gambling houses not prepared to say, their number has but probably not diminished. The gambling that 6. gors 15

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not rather tend towards

the encouragement of gambling than towards its suppression, I requested the Acting Captain Superintendent to make a report on this point, and he reported, as did also

one

of his Chief Inspectors, against this Secret Service money being given to informers of gambling cases. Since then I have

declined to grant it any

for this particular purpose.

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doubt

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doubt, as I have already remarked, that gambling is indulged in by many in Hongkong,

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this

remark be confined to _ the Chinese.

That there has been

in crease

any particular in in the number of Chinese

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lately don

Gambling houses not prepared to say,

their number has

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probably not diminished. The gambling that

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