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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 10th. May, 1911.
I have the honour to acknowledge the
88
J receipt of your Despatch No. 78 of the 17th. March last trans-
-mitting papers on the subject of making Shanghai a Port of
Emigration for Chinese coolies.
The opinion you express that labourers
recruited in the neighbourhood of Shanghai will not be suited
for work in the Malay Peninsula appears to me to be well-found-
-ed. The conditions there have been proved almost too trying
even for Cantonese (except where the strictest supervision has
been exercised first in the selection of the emigrants and
later over their health after arrival). The climate of Kwang-
-tung however approaches much more nearly than that of any
other part of China the climate of the Malay Peninsula. The
experiment of employing Shanghai coolies on the British Section
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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&C.,
&c...
of