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CONSULATE FOR SPAIN,
HONG KONG
Enclosure No. 2.
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The Colonial Secretary,
Dear Sir,
Hong Kong, 17th April 1928.
Referring to our conversation of yesterday, regard-
ing Mr. Juan Mencarini's special mission on behalf of the
Spanish Government to recruit 2,000 Chinese labour emigrants
for the Colony of Spanish Guinea, on the West Coast of
Africa. I have the honour to enquire from you which would
be the necessary formalities required by the British Colonial
Government to allow the emigration from Hong Kong.
Mr. Mencarini's plans are to recruit the emigrants
from Southern Chinese Ports, and have them shipped to Fernando
Po direct from here, hence to the mainland Spanish Guinea.
The proposed inducements offered by the Spanish
Government to the emigrants are:-
First: free transportation and subsistance for the
immigrant and his family, from the point he may have to be
recruited to Spanish Guinea.
Second: A reasonable advance in money to his
family, if left behind, before he leaves his village.
Third: A free gift in cash as a further inducement
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on his embarking.
Fourth:- a three year contract, fran time of his
arrival at destination, to work in the fields, the products
of which to be divided in a proportion to be agreed upon (say
fifty-fifty) between the labourer and the Spanish Colonial
Government
Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E.,
Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong.