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April 28th. 1908.
Honourable A. P. "ilder,
21 JAN 03
American Consul-General,
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Dear Sir? -
Complying with your esteemed request, made in view of
conditions in Hongkong, for a statement regarding the ef-
-fect as concerns the permanent public good, of the pro-
secutions in the United States Courts in Shanghai in 1907,
against bawdy-house keepers, who held themselves out to be
Americans, I have to say as follows:-
The nine prosecutions late in Jamary, 1907 drove
out of China four "Mesdames" who have not returned and two
"Mesdames" who, after several months absence, returned to Shanghai, one having married a Spaniard at Hongkong the other an Austrian in Europe. Two other "Mesdames" ob-
tained British protection, one by direct application for papers at the Consulate here showing herself to be of Cana- dian origin, the other by marriage to a British subject, which marriage, hot permitted in Shanghai, was effected at Nagasaki. The ninth "Madame" produced German papers. About fifty-five of the "girls" all of those reputed Amer- icans, stampeded, mostly to Yokohama and Hongkong. The prostitution business of the more fashionable sort was put into great confusion. The consternation spread to the patrons of the house, resulting first in hasty payment of chita, and later in prolonged discussion and much vitupera- tion on the part of certain men of commercial prominence. The bawdy-houses, though losing much patronage for a few months, did not close; they were temporarily operated by a French "madame" and by the two "Mesdames" mentioned as ob- taining British papers, who with the German "Madame" are the principal bandy-house keepers in the Settlement today. The reputed American prostitutes in Tientsin and Hankow left China in April in fear of prosecution.