CO129-533-10 Position of prostitution in Hong Kong 16-1-1931 - 19-9-1931 — Page 33

deen

or you may

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is to stop the registration of any

new prostitutes. I shall be glad

if you will take action on these lines;

but I agree that in the case

of the Chinese brothels caution is

that

necessary and the effect on them of

A

ceasing registration might be reviewed

such

at the end of a year. At the same time

steps/ should be taken to elicit the

support of more enlightened Chinese

opinion; and every effort should be

made to extend the campaign against

venereal disease on the lines

suggested in paragraph 12 of your

despatch of 22nd August, 1930,

10.

I have not yet received

the Report of the League of Nations

Commission of Enquiry nor has any

thes

its receipt before addressing derfatit Gym,

forecast of its contents been

have

communicated to me, but I not felt

it necessary to await/it, since,

(of the Refort mendations, the

whatever the recommendations,

above