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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your des-

patch No 3759/04 of the 26th. ultimo requesting my views

as regards the methods adopted by Judge Wilfley to drive

out American prostitutes from Shanghai and their results.

As you are no doubt aware one of the chief objects

with which the United States Court was created in 1906 and

Mr. Wilfley appointed to the post of Judge was to deal with

the gamblers and prostitutes of Shanghai who were alleged

to flourish here under the claim of American citizenship

and the protection of American indifference.

Owing to the rather rapid conditions of life in the

Western states of America, the physical charms of their

women and the easy means of communication between San Fran-

ciso and Shanghai, the United States have practically mono-

polized the past the supply of foreign prostitutes at this

port. The nationality of these women not nn-naturally

earned for them the name of "American gina)*, a term now

applied indiscriminately to all foreign prostitutes living

in the particular quarter of Shanghai, the neighbourhood

of the Water Tower, originally assigned to this class. -fortunately, I may say, these "Water Tower" "omen are not

now the only foreign prostitutes at Shanghai. There is

another class, a lower and far more objectionable one, con- sisting chiefly of Jewish women of Russian nationality, who have found their way here from Vladivostock and other Rus- sian ports since the war to whom another quarter has been assigned.

There women are not known as "American girls"

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nor are they in the habit of calling themselves such. His Excellency

Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0.,

etc.,

etc.

etc., Ho NG K 0 NG.

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