CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 9

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immediately follows up his

charges agamist

grave

by what would

seem to be the source

of his

information, the key to his charges.

His words are

reported thus she had been I authorized by responsible persons in the Chinese Embassy in London to state that

the fhinese custom of purchasing children

was moch

beneficial to humanity

a great

check on

infanticide

and

What the value of the responsibility

the informant

نسانی

great

social

question may be, does not appear, except that it seems to have been entirely satisfactors to this Lordship. I fancy

that.

recollect that similar statement was

made more

than

60 years ago in важал

the buying of

support of West Africa

slaves in

as

it is

mase

Foreign

in East Africa to

office,

argument to which English

my

Law - where it exists _ is deaf and to which English Diplomacy is also deaf. I may add that all observations have been confined the limits of Stongkong, of

consition

the

to

which all the members

of the Chinese Embassy in London are necessarily ignorant. What I have said coulò have

application

to the internal condition of the Empire of thina

I have

put

under

one cover

and send to you enclosed all that

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