CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 188

ster

opinion,

as important and

the

urgent as ever, notwithstanding the ordinances lately issued by Goo ? of Macao. The hope entertained

in

many quarters that there measures will lead to the extinction

be

of the Coolie Trade can

only realized by successfully operating to the effect that the socalled "free Emigration of Chinese labourers also allowed in Maces since as before, shall be placed under effectual.

all respects above referred to. But this, under the special.

in Macao,

control in all

& ace

circumstances existing

according to past experience, can only be attained by measures which

• presuppose an international Conocution of the kind just mentioned.

to settle

It is especially necessary, by Treaty the right of Search to be

Exercised.

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excrcised also on the high seas, if the frequently occurring abuses are to be prevented, when Ships which have left the port under allowed condition, afterwards take Coolie transports in

the worst sense

of

the word

Though the Inipl Goot were to consider itself bound to take steps for the conclusion of an Internationen Convention against the Coolie Trade of the same kind as the existing Treaties against the Slave Trade, the official initiative in first rank must still be left to the great Maritime Power. The past proceedings of the Great Powers in the Coolie Question prevent any apprehension of a fundamental objection to take measures recommende from the German side into consideration This also applies especially to England, which has not only always conferred & exerted the most lively interest for the suppression of those abures besides which the Coolie Trade is to be placed,

but