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Ho. 1098 (1/43 E.)
VIA IBERIA.
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Hongkong
Canton.
Crown Advocate. Dip.Mission.
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Bay Gokey
BRITISH LEGATION
PEI TAIKO.
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27th July, 1931.
sir,
Canton desy. No. 85 of 18.6
I have the honour to transmit here-
with a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's
Consul-General at Canton on the subject of
a oomplaint made by the Chinese authorities
against a British firm in Hongkong in sọnn-
ection with the recruiting of Chinese labour -
ers in China for Samoa, The facts of the
ease appear to be briefly as follows.
Mosar: Gibb, Livingston and Company
engage from time to time in the business of
recruiting consignments of Chinese labourers
for samom. Their Chinese recruiters visit
Kuangtung and collect Chinese coolies who
are induced to go to Hongkong where they are
taken charge of by a Chinese boarding house
pending examination and selection of those
fit for export to Samoa. The Chinese Author-
/ities
The Right Honourable,
Arthur Henderson, K.P.,
etc.,
ete. eto.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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