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should imagine it pofsible that arry Goverun could be compelled by the Lecutary of State to restore his name to an

- invitation list from which, in consequence of such conduct, it was struck out.

On the Official repect of the question, however, it is due to Mr.

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Wodehouse to remember that the mode

in which the Brothel Laws have been

worked for many years

and the

way

in Hongkong

in which it has been the

custom to treat the chinese population,

must have done a good deal to blank his perception of right and wrong in such

Acting Registrar

matters.

Ste was

General when the Coroner's Jury

betober 1877 denounced the illegal and immenal practice of that department in employing informers to get chinese women to protitute themselves and then to arreck them. So little dish be

appear to be aware of the iniquity of the procceding that he threw out the

suggestion that inclind of paying an

instead ccasional informer, the Government should create a body of such detectives to

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regularly employed.

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No doubt, ales, the idea that women in chinese Brothels may properly

be subipated to the curiosity, prurient

otherwise, of Europeans, whilst no Chinaman should under

any

Circumstances