CO129-503-7 Chinese labour- recruitment for work in coal mines in Sarawak 17-9-1926 - 14-2-1928 — Page 34

Mr.

Ellis

Mr.

30081/1927 Hong Kong

Downing Street,

2

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C.

Mr.

Mr. J. Harding.

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Sir C. Strachey

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

sir,

Sir G. Grindle.

15 June,

June, 1927

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

M. Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

DRAFT.

HONG KONG

I have etc.to ack. the receipt of

your Confidential despatch of the 30th

of December in which you suggest that you

should be authorised to permit emigration

of Chinese labour to Sarawak under a system

practically amounting to indenture.

Confidential

2.

I am aware that such emigration

Govr. Clementi.

is allowed in the case of Samoa and Ocean

Island, but these are places under the

fath

League control of British Governments

of

with an active public opinion. Conditions

are different in Sarawak where there is

only an elementary Administration, where

there