CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 207

MINUTES.

MINUTES NOT TO BE WR

ON THIS SIDE.

CONFIDENTIAL,

Sir,

61909

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 19th October, 1921.

200

Jo

39150

TO

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your Confidential despatch of the 13th of August with regard to the emigration of Chinese coolies from Hongkong.

2.

It has long been the established policy to allow the emigration of Chinese from Hongkong only to places where this Government is satisfied that the conditions are

favourable to the emigrants and that no serious abuses exist. In this matter it has always been the aim of the Goverment to co-operate in a friendly spirit with the

Chinese Authorities.

3.

!

In the somewhat peculiar circumstances of Mexican and Cuban emigration it has recently been decided that no Chinese emigrants should be allowed to leave the Colony for those countries unless they could in each case produce evidence of the consent of the Chinese Authorities; though in the present unsettled state of China it is a matter of considerable difficulty to determine what evidence to this effect should be accepted.

4.

Apart from this difficulty, to which

reference is made in Sir H. J. Read's letter of the 12th

3815 www of August, it would seem highly inadvisable to admit the

general

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

&c.

&c..