CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5] — Page 92

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 10th. May, 1911.

I have the honour to acknowledge the

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J receipt of your Despatch No. 78 of the 17th. March last trans-

-mitting papers on the subject of making Shanghai a Port of

Emigration for Chinese coolies.

The opinion you express that labourers

recruited in the neighbourhood of Shanghai will not be suited

for work in the Malay Peninsula appears to me to be well-found-

-ed. The conditions there have been proved almost too trying

even for Cantonese (except where the strictest supervision has

been exercised first in the selection of the emigrants and

later over their health after arrival). The climate of Kwang-

-tung however approaches much more nearly than that of any

other part of China the climate of the Malay Peninsula. The

experiment of employing Shanghai coolies on the British Section

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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