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be admitted within a Brothel (even if chinese women) licensed for Europeans,

is but a part of a claps expter, which has trevailed here for years, though I believe but little known to Her Maverty's Government.. I am therefore not surpriziá that Mr. Wodehouse should

arque

that this

particular Pouf Law, though in terms

- applying to both Europeans and Chiness,

les

should be construed much Ich strictly

16.

The

exptem of informers,

employed by the Rugistine Henerals departement and paid by Goremment

money

to induce Chinese women to

was not known

prostitute themselves, to me until the proceedings of the

Coroners inquest exposed it;

this

case also, I have

for the first time,

Asw

so

in

learned,

, of what W. Worchmu.

calls the " special privileged visits

European gentlemen to the three

Brothels licensed for

J

F

clupes of

in the case

of Auropeans. Nor am astonished that he should be as totally insensible to the effect of his muit

visit

on the native feelings or prejudices of the Chinese men and women

til he saw in the Brothels.

chinese only.

17.

I need hardly say that I

have given instructions which will

prevent in future such an evasion