CO129-565-13 Recruitment of Chinese labourers for employment abroad 1-8-1937 - 30-3-1938 — Page 10

STAITS SETTLEMENTS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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کم دست

Sir,

GOVERNOR

STRAITS

FTLEMENTS

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

SINGAPORE.

10

6:

30 March, 1938.

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With reference to your Straits Settlements

Confidential (2) despatch of the 12th January, 1938,

enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to the Foreign

Office on the subject of the Chinese regulations

governing Chinese labourers proceeding abroad, I have

the honour to say that since the promulgation by the

Overseas Affairs Committee of these Rules and Principles

on the 6th November, 1936, the position in China has changed so greatly through the Sino-Japanese hostilities that it seems probable that no attempt will ever be made

to enforce these Rules and Principles in their

entirety.

2.

If, however, any attempt should in the future be made at enforcement, the Malayan Governments would take exception to such a course of action, and I would then ask you to approach the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with a view to arranging for His

Majesty's Ambassador to enter a protest.

3.

The requirements of Principle No. 4 in regard to the content of the contract stray into matters that are provided in our municipal law, e.g. the hours of

The Right Honourable

W.G.A. Ormsby Gore, P.C., M.P.,

Etc.,

etc.

etc.,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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