Dear Clarke,
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11th December 1933.
You sent me on the 5th of December the enclosed
letter and cutting from one of your constituents concerning
the Mui Tsai system. The printed letter from a r. Lancaster
Smith which your correspondent forwarded originally appeared
as an article in a recent issue of a publication called "The
Slave Market News", of which, I understand, Mr. Lancaster
Smith is the proprietor.
The statement in this letter that slavery exists in
Hong Kong is, of course, entirely without foundation; and
many of the other statements made by Mr. Lancaster Smith are
quite untrue, or give a completely misleading impression of
what the situation is and what effort has been made, and is being
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made, to improve conditions.
The true position has been
frequently explained in the House of Commons in reply to
questions the latest reply being that given on my behalf to
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