CO129-509-6 Recruitment of Chinese labour in Hong Kong for work in North Borneo and Spanish guinea... 27-3-1928 - 27-12-1928 — Page 33

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

25th September, 1928.

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INMEDIATE.

Dear Caine,

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I write with reference to Colonial Oflice

letter No.52799/28 of September 20th to say that

we are sending the Colonial Office officially a

copy of an aide-mémoire left here by a representative

of the Spanish Embassy on September 20th, asking that

the authorities in Hong Kong may be requested to

facilitate the embarkation in British boats of two

thousand Chinese workers for Spanish Guinea.

Our view on this question is that it would be

most undesirable in the present state of our informa-

tion as to conditions in Spanish Guinea that His

Majesty's Government should assume, if they can

avoid it, any positive responsibility for shipping

Chinese labourers thither. As however, these

S.Caine, Esq.

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