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These papers have been held up principally
because the paper containing the Governor's despatch
of the 22nd of May 1925, (in some ways the most
important paper in the series), is missing and
has defied all attempts to trace it. We have to
content ourselves, therefore, with the following
note which appears in the Hong Kong Regist:-
"Transmits copy of a letter from the Chief
Secretary, Sarawak, which appears to remove
all objections except that the system is
practically equivalent to indentured emigra-
tion. If the S. of S. sees no objection on
this score a has no wish to offer any
opposition".
It will be seen from 18049/25 that Hong
Kong was against the proposals as originally put
forward, and from 25638/25 that when we were
approached by the Sarawak Government Agent we
informed him that it was not possible for the
Secretary of State to ask the Governor to 60
further in this matter than the Governor was
prepared to go.
It now appears that considerable modifica-
tions have been made in the terms originally
suggested and that Hong Kong, while admitting
that the system is none the less still practically
equivalent to indenture labour, prepared to
acquiesce in the proposals subject to certain
important