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attention should be paid to devising some means
of affording them some safe and secret means of appeal to the Chinese Secretariat in case of
111-treatment.
(C) To investigate fully the possibility of preventing the transfer of mul tsai without the consent of their natural parents or the Chinese
Secretariat;
(D) To report what measures should be taken by Government to cope with the anticipated result of the measures adopted.
You should obtain the Commission's Report and send it to me with your recommenda- tions before you leave the Colony in June. You should in any case issue a proclamation imme- diately making it quite clear to employers and employed that the status of mui tsai,as under- stood in China, will not in future be recognised in Hong Kong, and in particular that no compul- sion of any kind to prevent girls over age freely leaving at any time their adopted parent or other employers will be allowed.
Please telegraph as soon as possible the substance of the proposed pro clamation.
CHURCHILL
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