CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7] — Page 418

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Alleged child slavery.

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Kord Milner.

Mr. Grindle-

I think the right line for the 3.

of S. to take on this is to say that he re-

cognizes that the institutions and conditions

in the matter of social and domestic usages

cannot differ widely in Hong Kong from those prevailing in the neighbouring Provinces of

China, that he does not think it possible or desirable to enforce Testern ideas, especially

those of ill-informed philanthropic enthu-

siasts, upon the family life of the Chinese,

and that the right course is to aim at gradual reform, where reform is necessary, in oo-opera-

tion with, and by the aid of, enlightened and

humane members of the Chinese oozzunity, of Wo. 26689--85 50,000 11/19, H. St. G. 122/ 41,