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than they are at present, but a new burden would be laid on the well disposed. And the burden would be a heavy

a registration scheme would create endless 274 openings for squeeze and blackmail, in addition to the interference with private life already referred to. The ground would be well prepared for such a development by the ignorance of most of the Chinese concerned, and not less by the suspicions that would be aroused in a very large class, even of honest people, that the Govern- ment had some ulterior motive in their registration scheme. These would attempt to hide the truth, and would so give the blackmailer his opportunity.

The Chinese genius for squeeze and blackmail as well as the weakness which the victim show, are matters almost in- conceivable to those who have not been in direct touch with the people.

So much for general registration. It would fail because evasion would be too easy: and because it would lack public sympathy or even perhaps alienate it by the Regulations that any serious attempt to enforce it would require.

But would a partial registration scheme be possible for Hong Kong residents alone? The abuses are not mainly in the class that seems to be intended by this suggestion, for while it is difficult to define exactly what is meant by "Hong Kong resident", those who have made Hong Kong their permanent home are little, if aħj

all concerned in the mui tsai traffic. But all who can

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afford it from the highest down, own mui tsai: and this part of the community is very ready to do all it can for their protection. Such limited registration would mean in a more pointed manner than ever that the well disposed would be put to extra trouble: and the omission from the Regulations of the regular trafficker, who moves about the country and lives nowhere, would entirely

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