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from Sir J. Russell &
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the women
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As to the further protection of female emi-
grants from Hong Kong to the Straits by employing de- tectives to travel on the steamers I frankly think that it would do little good and might do harm, for the class of men who are employed in such work must be most carefully supervised, as they are utterly unscru- pulous, and would probably use their position to levy black mail from Chinese Emigrants.
The case you refer to had cropped up before I left I think. At least the Governor sent me the papers where two girls had been brought back to Hong Kong through the intervention of the Minister at Bang- kok. If that is the same case I think the girls had been sold, and recognised the rights of the purchaser, and passed all the examinations at both Hong Kong and Singapore. These people stick to the story they have been taught, and it is only finally when they find themselves landed in some out of the way place
that they see how they have been victimised. What
the Government officers have to try and do is that
these emigrants should be thoroughly instructed that they are free on British soil and on British ships and that the fact of money having been paid for them gives no power over them by the purchaser. I believe that is still done at the Emigration Office, notices are posted to that effect. It is in the Canton steamers in the passenger accommodation, and except exercising the strictest vigilance I don't see what we can do more, having regard to the liberty of the sub- ject. Thomsett and I arranged a system of photos to
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