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Sir,
RECE!
4 APR 1927
COL. OFFIC
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 2nd March, 1927.
I have the honour to inform you that in the "Tai Kwong Po") Hong Kong of 27th January, 1927, there appeared an account of the alleged discovery of murdered infants at the Foundling Home, Foochow, on the capture of that city by the Nationalist forces (see my Secret despatches of 21st January, and 4th February).
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The report stated that the French and Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries had for years murdered the foundlings, whom they received under the guise of humanity, for the purpose of employing their vital organs in the composition of a tonic which they exported to Europe at a great profit. It was alleged that mutilated corpses had been found, that in all ten thousand infants had perished and that popular sentiment was outraged at the discovery.
3. It is hardly necessary to state that the article in question was never submitted to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for censorship as required by the Regulations made on 25th June, 1925, under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance No.5 of 1922 and the editor and publisher were charged
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.