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CONFIDENTIAL.
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RET
25P 21
Government House,
Hongkong, 10th March, 1921.
Sir,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Hilner's Confidential despatch of December 2nd, 1920,
enclosing a copy of a letter with enclosure from Hra. C. B. L.
Hazlewood regarding cases of "child-slavery" in Hongkong.
The annexed minute by the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs deals sufficiently with #ro, Kaalewood's covering
letter. As reprds the points specified by numbers in the
enclosure to her lattar:-
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(1) Apparently the reference in to a case brought up on
the 16th July, 1920, (not the 16th of June, on which date no such case is recorded). The two girls aged 15 and 9 rompective. -ly had undoubtedly been ill-treated, having bruises and burns on their bodies but there was no injury of a permanent characte: The employer was fined £500: the girls were sent to the Po Leung Kuk on August 3rd. The elder girl was adopted on the 27th August and the younger on 8th September under bonds for $150. I should explain that in such cases of adoption from thị Kuk the bondsman who is a person of standing and known to the authorities undertakes to cause the woman who has adopted the girl to bring her to the office of the Pecretary for Chinees Affairs when called upon to do so. wirls are brought to the office every three or six months according to circumstances.
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(2) See the minute by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs already referred to. It will be noted that the woman concerned
RIGHT HONOURABLE
WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,
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