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excamples will account for a want of success in arresting gamblers not only in the Central district but in other, districts. And the fact that some of the most successful raids have been made When the Police have been despatched to the hauses before the warrants have actually been obtained tends to stery then There is a much am suspicion in the matter.

greater difficulty in obtaining information about gambling than under the old Ordinance that Ordinance.

Gave

liberally retarding informers auch of files When fraid. When the finds were not paid Inspectors in Charge of bases would still obtain rewards for them from the secret service find... All this is stopped. Negaly all the gambling informers have been banished briefly through Complaints boming against them through the Registrer general's office.

other men bare about barrying

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thy work for nothing but the prospect of being banished.

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Your Witnesses say all the detectives and most of the rest of the Force received bribed for withholding information. If that be so then had no better means

obtaining

information thaw other pearson. I trusted entirely to the Chinese detectives for information and no one has given information since. 1895 When I believe. Pla 181 - Leung Kerai bhung. repeated gambling was occasionally barried

for bactice in three or

in three or four houses he