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I understand that two further copies of the
Report to the Council of the League of Nations of
the Commission of Enquiry into traffic in women and
children in the East are being obtained by the Library
and that one of these copies is to be sent to Eastern
Department for retention.
It does not appear that copies have yet
gone to the Colonies concerned (though the draft of
each territorial section of Part II appears to have
been sent to the territory concerned for comment
before publication) and until the Eastern dependencies
particularly Hong Kong and Malaya have had an
opportunity of perusing the Report and commenting
upon it, I think it would be preferable for Mr.Harris
to reserve comment as far as possible at the forth-
coming meeting of the League of Nations Committee.
(Presumably the Traffic in women and Children
Committee).
The Report appears to be a most useful
and helpful document and the suggestions made
therein are not, I think, likely to meet with
opposition from the Eastern Colonies.
I attach some notes directing attention to
points which are of particular interest, so far as
Hong Kong is concerned. In the Report (page 90) a
Conference is suggested of competent representatives
of China, Hong Kong, Macao and the other countries of
the South Seas to which Chinese victims of the
traffic go, with a view to remedying the existing
lack of co-ordination.
It is stated also that close
collaboration
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