NO CONFIDENTIAL.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG. 30th October, 1929.
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My Lord,
In reply to Your Lordship's telegram of
the 2nd October, I have the honour to inform you that
the reference in the China Mail of the 10th August
is to a number of arrests made by the Hong Kong
police as a result of information supplied by a
Chinese woman who had obtained it in the course of her
attempts to trace the whereabouts of her kidnapped son.
2. The woman adopted the plan of posing
sometimes as a trafficker in children sometimes as a
childless woman wishing to adopt a son. She first
got in touch with agents of traffickers, travelling
traders and others, and through their introduction
was able to visit a number of addresses used as
depots at which children were offered for sale.
In some instances children were actually kept at these depôts; in others the person in charge arranged
to have them brought there for inspection. She
worked in close co-operation with the Hong Kong
police and the District Watch Force and has up to the
present been instrumental in effecting the arrest of
47 persons, of whom 17 have already been deported
after due enquiry. A number of cases are still
pending
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSTIELD,
3C.,
&c.
&C.,