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as appeared to them to bear upon the problem.
The views which they have recorded on the
position in China are, of course, their
own views, and to my mind it might have
given an element of unreality to their
report if they had failed to draw attention
to the attitude taken up on this questionsin
China.
In your letter of the 28th of
November you have referred particularly
to the problem of mui-tsai who may have
escaped registration under the present
arrangements. The Committee did, of
course, have this aspect of the question
before them when they had to deal with
the resolutions of the British Common-
wealth League, which were printed in
Appendix 5 of your report, but my own
view is that if the substantial change
in the whole system in Hong Kong which
they advocate, can be adopted, the
particular matter of unregistered mui-tsai
must