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be admitted within a Brothel (even if chinese women) licensed for Europeans,
is but a part of a claps expter, which has trevailed here for years, though I believe but little known to Her Maverty's Government.. I am therefore not surpriziá that Mr. Wodehouse should
arque
that this
particular Pouf Law, though in terms
- applying to both Europeans and Chiness,
les
should be construed much Ich strictly
16.
The
exptem of informers,
employed by the Rugistine Henerals departement and paid by Goremment
money
to induce Chinese women to
was not known
prostitute themselves, to me until the proceedings of the
Coroners inquest exposed it;
this
case also, I have
for the first time,
Asw
so
in
learned,
, of what W. Worchmu.
calls the " special privileged visits
European gentlemen to the three
Brothels licensed for
J
F
clupes of
in the case
of Auropeans. Nor am astonished that he should be as totally insensible to the effect of his muit
visit
on the native feelings or prejudices of the Chinese men and women
til he saw in the Brothels.
chinese only.
17.
I need hardly say that I
have given instructions which will
prevent in future such an evasion