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and observation

ques

the result of

the working of been eminently satisfactory.

this Ordinance has

I believe that the lowver

class of gambling dens in the Colony, formerly practically suppressed and that this

has been followe

ved by a divivivution

do numerow have been

of crime.

Lottery tickets are much more difficult to deal with than

ordinary gambling, when a

room or house,

gambling implements,

gambling gambling,

aande

with

visible

money

on the table, are so

proofs

obtaining

so many to assist the Police ii

convictions.

The Police have obtained.

some success in the suppression of

which Agencies

Chinese lotteries for which

had vir established here and

broken, but little success has been

cotained in the suppression of the

sake

anv

of Manila lotteries.. satisfied there is no secret agency for

sale

of bese

the

le

lottery

tickets wi

Horg.

many persons of

the

Long, but respectable class both European native send to Manila, to Shanghai

am and

and elsewhere and procure tickets there for themselves and friends. This it is impossible to stop. I have re

Jof A. Gordon.

Capt. Supt of Police.

Aon : G. F. M. OBrien que. Colonial secretary.