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DOWNING STREET,

Geteber, 1921.

1. November 194T

On the 6th of July you asked a

question in the House of Commons as to

LORD HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK.mệthe names of the Chinese Ladies appoint ec

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Mr. Gent.19.10

Mr. Beckett

Mr. Collins 28.

X Mr. Grindle 29

Sir H. Lambert.

Sir H. Read.

Sir Or Fidder.

X Sir J.Masterton Bath

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Mr. Wood.

Mr. Churchill.

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to consider matters connected with the

protection of women and girls especially

the mui tsal in the Colony of Hong Kong

in reply to which I promised to enquire

of the Governor.

The Governor has now sent a list

of the names, but he observes that these

ladies and their husbands would in most

cases resent a publicity which would only

serve to expose them to a flood of

unwelcome correspondence. I do not

therefore send you a list of these

I hunti Chinese names, which would scarcely in

Cursy My much time;

which hound

any casa convey any meaning to you, but

I write to let you know that they are i

here at the Colonial Office if at any

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time you would care to inspect them do not, however, wish to publish them, as

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