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DROIT
Government House, Đông Đông.
Mr. Moss, however, believes that Mr. Lai was speaking
his honest opinion; and I, therefore, pass on the
enclosed letter from Mr. Moss for your personal
information, in order that, if members of the House
of Commons should refer to "Canton's Charter of
Freedom for Mui-tsai", it may enable you to appreciate
what that "Charter" is really worth.
My own experience of the Chinese convinces me
that these new regulations are, as Mr. Moss and Mr.
Lai say, "a paper tiger", and will not really be
enforced, the more so as the Canton administration is
now in serious jeopardy as the result of civil war
and cannot possibly have time to attend to social
reform.
Yours sincerely,
The Right Honourable Lord Passfield,
&c., &c., &c.
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