Monday 29th May, 1923.
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Mr. Inskip,
To ask the Lord Privy Seal, whether he is aware that the governor of Hong Kong requested the naval authorities at Hong Kong to restrain the wife of Lieutenant-Commander Haslewood, then superintendent of the chart department, from advocating publicly the prohibition of the mui tsai system, and that the commander-in-chief thereupon tried to bring pressure to bear upon Mrs. Haslewood through her husband to desist from her public advocacy of a measure which has now been substantially adopted by His Majesty's Government, as evidenced by the proclamation in Hong Kong that slavery is not allowed to exist in the British Empire and that therefore mui tsai are not the property of their owners; and
whether, in view of all the circumstances, the Government can make some amenda both to Lieutenant-Commander Haslewood and to Mrs. Haslewood.
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