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Gov/35160/ H.K.

$.0. (for Mr. Grindle's signature).

DRAFT.

DOWNING STREET,

by June,

,1921.

Dear Delevingne,

SIR M. DELEVINGNE, K.C.3.

MINUTE.

Mr.

Gent. 1/6

Mr.

Beckett 1/6

Mr. Collins has seen

I

Mr. Grindle. 3

Sir H. Lambert,

Sir H. Read.

* Sir G. Fiddes,

3

★Cut: Amery. Mr. Wood 4.75.

Ma Chachir, Mr.Churchill

last;para:for conson.

morandum re mui-teni Copy atta

with addition marked A.

-

Lambert has handed on to me your note of the 23rd of May about child labour

in Hong Kong.

. Thomas is of course correct

in considering that he could not under the

Treaty raise the question on the represen- j

tation of an individual, and His Majesty's Government, as a matter of principle, could not be a party to such acourse.

You are no doubt aware that the

matter of child labour in Hong Kong has formed the subject of questions in the

House of Commons, and that the position

and the views of the Government upon it,

have been stated there.

I am enclosing for your own in-

formation, a copy of a memorandum which

has been prepared in the Far East Depart- mant here, it deals mainly with the Chinese

custom of Mui Taal, or the adoption of

servant girls, which Lieutenant Commander

Haalewood appears to confuse with the

question of child labour mentioned by

M.Thomas in the letter you enclosed.

The