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I understand that two further copies of the

Report to the Council of the League of Nations of

the Commission of Enquiry into traffic in women and

children in the East are being obtained by the Library

and that one of these copies is to be sent to Eastern

Department for retention.

It does not appear that copies have yet

gone to the Colonies concerned (though the draft of

each territorial section of Part II appears to have

been sent to the territory concerned for comment

before publication) and until the Eastern dependencies

particularly Hong Kong and Malaya have had an

opportunity of perusing the Report and commenting

upon it, I think it would be preferable for Mr.Harris

to reserve comment as far as possible at the forth-

coming meeting of the League of Nations Committee.

(Presumably the Traffic in women and Children

Committee).

The Report appears to be a most useful

and helpful document and the suggestions made

therein are not, I think, likely to meet with

opposition from the Eastern Colonies.

I attach some notes directing attention to

points which are of particular interest, so far as

Hong Kong is concerned. In the Report (page 90) a

Conference is suggested of competent representatives

of China, Hong Kong, Macao and the other countries of

the South Seas to which Chinese victims of the

traffic go, with a view to remedying the existing

lack of co-ordination.

It is stated also that close

collaboration

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