CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929 — Page 41

5.Sydney Buildings.

Bath.

September 26th, 1929.

The Under Secretary of State.

No. 62838/29

Dear Sir,

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I write to acknowledge the receipt of your three

letters dated 17th September, and note that a further letter

is to be sent to me on receipt of the Report which the Governor

of Hong Kong has been asked to furnish upon the cases in ques-

tion, relating to Mui Tsai in the Colony.

The enclosed cuttings from the "South China Morning

Post" of August the 10th may be of interest to you if you have

not seen them. It is to be regretted that the letters are

anonymous, but this is easily understood in view of the fact

that when we were in the Colony in 1919, any strong protest on

this question of Child Slavery made by a resident was liable to

be followed at once by acts of intimidation on the part of the

Government to the person who protested.

I can and do fully appreciate and understand that the

Secretary of State, as head of the Colonial Service, deprecates

the third paragraph in my covering letter of the 5th September,

and perhaps I should have said that I was referring to infor

mation supplied to the Colonial Office between the years 1920 -