The Under-Secretary of State.
Colonial Office.
5.Sydney Buildings.
Bath.
March 27th, 1931.
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Sir,
Child Slavery in Hong Kong.
Generally speaking, we have endeavoured, in spite of great provocation, to use restrained language both when writing and
speaking on the above subject. There are times, however, when language of a vehement nature is necessary to convey without any question or doubt a considered statement.
We do not hesitate, therefore, to describe your answers to Mr Campbell on the 12th March as being absolutely untrue; and not only are they untrue, but in our opinion the only alternative to their being deliberately untrue can be the supposition that you cannot have taken the trouble to grasp the facts relating to this disgraceful slavery in Hong Kong.
We emphatically state that inspection, control and remuneration of the Mui Tsai, as ordered by Lord Passfield in his despatch of August 22nd, 1929, has not been carried out. If your statement
in the House of Commons is correct, that it has been carried out "in its entirety" it means that the whole of the Hong Kong Press, the Secretary of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society, the Secretary of the
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