Mr.
Ellis
Mr.
30081/1927 Hong Kong
Downing Street,
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Mr.
Mr. J. Harding.
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Sir C. Strachey
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
sir,
Sir G. Grindle.
15 June,
June, 1927
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
M. Ormsby-Gore.
Lord Lovat.
Mr. Amery.
DRAFT.
HONG KONG
I have etc.to ack. the receipt of
your Confidential despatch of the 30th
of December in which you suggest that you
should be authorised to permit emigration
of Chinese labour to Sarawak under a system
practically amounting to indenture.
Confidential
2.
I am aware that such emigration
Govr. Clementi.
is allowed in the case of Samoa and Ocean
Island, but these are places under the
fath
League control of British Governments
of
with an active public opinion. Conditions
are different in Sarawak where there is
only an elementary Administration, where
there