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Enclosure
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REG: 15 SEP 13
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
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Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention signed at Paris
on the 4th. Way, 1910, are those which define the nature of the specific offences condemned by the Convention signed at Paris on th 4th. May, 1910; but they must be read in connection with clauses a, b, c, and d of the final Protocol of the same date if they are to be clearly understood, and of these clause (b) is the most important. Article 1 deals with the procuring, enticing or leading away of a woman or girl under age for immoral purposes even with her consent. Article 2 deals with the procuring, enticing or lead- -ing away by fraud, violence, threats, abuse of authority or any
other method of compulsion of a woman or girl over age for immoral purposes. By clause (b) of the final Protocol, a woman or girl under age means a woman or girl under 20 completed years of age, and similarly a woman or girl over age refers to a woman or
girl over 20 completed years of age. It should be observed that
both Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention state that offenders should
be punished notwithstanding that the various Aota constituting the
offence may have been committed in different countries. With regard to the punishment, clause (c) of the Convention provides that at
any time rate imprisonment shall form part of the penalty. With
regard to the punishment of the offences designated though the
various sots constituting the offence may have been committed
in different countries, I do not imagine that it is intended that
local legislation should specifically state this decision of the
Convention, and I am inclined to assume (although I may not be
correct) that the form and the language which the legislation of
Great Britain, for example, has taken is sufficient to include
offences committed under circumstances there i... in Great Britain
apparent and adequate to avoid either the necessity for obtaining
evidence of the comission in other countries of parts of the Acts constituting an offence (broadly defined in the first and second articles in the Convention) or to prevent an evasion of puniement
by an individual who may commit different parts of the offence