CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937 — Page 33

TELEPHONE:

HOLBORN

4104.

CATHOLIC UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN.

15 OLD SQUARE,

LINCOLN'S INN, W.C. 2.

Chinese Government recently issued from Canton a

decree banning the sale of contraceptives in the

interest of public morality the Eugenics League

has announced that it intends to promote the use

of contraceptives in the Southern Provinces of

This and the fact that a prominent

China.

Hong Kong Government official should, as an officer

of the League, be engaged in disseminating the

practice of birth control among the natives of the

Colony has aroused indignation. I enclose a copy

of a note on the subject received from Hong Kong.

Yours sincerely,

Filtlan

President of the Catholic Union of

Great Britain.

The Rt. Hon. W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, M.P.

The Colonial Office.

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