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Downing Street,
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24th March, 1933.
Dear Harris,
You will remember that you wrote to Bottomley
on the 23rd February about the Report of the Commission
of Enquiry of the League of Nations into the traffic in
women and children in the East. The Report has now been
examined in detail in the Colonial Office and I am able
to let you have the following comments upon it.
2.
I suggest that it might be best for you to
take up a non-committal attitude at Geneva until the
Colonial Governments concerned have had an opportunity
of forwarding their detailed comments on the Report.
As you may be aware all that they have seen so far is
the draft of the Sections of Part II which were sent to
the Territories respectively concerned for comment
before publication.
3.
So far as the Colonial Office is concerned the
Territories dealt with in the Report are Hong Kong,
Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Unfederated
Malay States, Ceylon and Palestine.
4.
Hong Kong. The position is as follows:-
All
European brothels were closed by the end of 1931; all
Chinese and Japanese brothels catering for Europeans
were closed by July, 1932; no further prostitutes are
to be admitted to Chinese brothels; no transfer of
prostitutes from one brothel to another may be made
and no prostitute may return to a brothel after an
absence
S.W. HARRIS, ESQ., C.B., C.V.O.
No comments yet.
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