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HONG KONG
15 June 1923
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RE 25 JUL 3
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nclosure 1.
My Lord Duke,
With reference to Your Grace's confidential
despatch of the 23rd March, 1923, I have the honour to
forward for your consideration a copy of a letter dated 31st May, 1923, received from Mr. Kwai C. Lau, Chief Manager
of the Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd., of Hongkong.
nclosure 2.
ncoure 3.
On the 5th February last Mr. Leu addressed a letter to me which was practically identical with that addressed to His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, copy of which was forwarded in your despatch mentioned above, A further letter on the same subject was received from the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce a copy of which I enclose.
The matter was referred to His Majesty's Consul-General at Saigon and a copy of Mr. Drummond Hogg's reply is enclosed also.
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Enclosure {
THE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK, LTD.
Saigon, 31st May, 1923.
Sir . E. Stubbs,
H. I. The Governor of Hongkong,
Hongkong.
Froellency:-
I beg to have received your Excellency's letter of the 28th February, 1923, transmitted to me through the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, relative to the subject of 111-treatment by the Immigration Office at Saigon. I thank your Excellency for the kindness of calling the attention of the British Consul-General in this port to the subject and of instructing him to deal with this serious situation. I regret to state, however, that inspite of the fact that the British Consul-General Mr. Drummond Hogg has taken up the matter with the French Authorities here, nothing has been done to ameliorate the actual state of affairs in any definite manner. On being inquired for the reason that the Japanese, in contradistinction to other Asiatics, are exempt from the requirements of the Immigrat- ion Office, the French Officials declared that Japan and France had a treaty by which the Japanese were to be treated on the same footing as Biropeans. The Japanese and the Chinese are both of the yellow race, and if the Japanese are not required to comply with the formalities of the Immigration Office, it is unreasonable that a British Subject like myself, though of Chinese parentage, should be humiliated by being subjected to ill-treatment, for from the legal standpoint a British Subject is a European regardless of his parentage. I am as truly a British
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Subject as any patriotic Britisher, and I helped Great Britain in the great European War in handing over my ships to the British Government for war service. It is high time for the British Government to take up this matter with
France in order to uphold the honour of the British nation
and to protect British interests in Cochin-China.
Begging your Excellency's pardon for any trouble
I beg your Excellency,
to believe me to be, &c.,
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Enclosure 2.
CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Hongkong March 2nd, 1923.
I have the honour to lay before you a complaint which this Chamber has received from Messre,. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yik Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk regarding certainalleged ill-treat- ment receivedat the hands of the French Authorities in Saigon. 2.
I am informed that Messrs. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yick Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk, who are members of and are on the General Committee of this Chamber, are British fubjects. They are wellknow Chinese merchente inthe Colony,
Messrs. Un Men Chuen, Lea Yick Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk, left Hongkong onthe 70th September 1922 for Saigon on business in connection with the Chinese merchants' bank and the New Loong rice firm of that Port. I understand that these businesses are the largest in Annay, and that the duty paid by the letter tothe French Government amounts to several million dollars yearly.
Mosers. Un Man Chuen, Leu Tick Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk travelled with Passports issued by the Hongkong Govern- ment and vised by the French Consul In Hongkong. In spite of this, they were not allowed to land until they had obtained
● Permit which is issued only upon a guarantee being given
by some well-known merchant of that Port who has to affix to the guarantee the chop of his firm,
After lending, "egara. Un Men Chuen, Lau Tick Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk were subjented to and examination by the Doctor, and in addition, to the indignity of having their finger-printe taken. They had also to pay a Poll Tar.
Messrs. Un Men Chuen, Lau Yick Cheuk and Lau Kwai
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Chinese who cannot get a Permit as abovementioned are detained, pending departure of the steamer taking them back, in a place of detention which is aptly known locally as the "pigsty".
All luggage and personal goods are subject to a heavy tax. Custom House first.
even a pair of socks -
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Chinese ladies, on landing, are not allowed to wear
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The British Government has for its main object the love of the people. You prostitutes: your persons are your own.. You can come or go away at liberty. If any extortion or oppression is imposed on you, you can report it to the Authorities, and you will get your wrongs
redressed.
The above is handed over to a prostitute
on being passed. Her photograph is mounted on a separate card, on the back of which are inserted the
following:-
Name of the prostitute.
Name of Brothel.
Signature of Secretary for
Chinese Affairs.
The number of cases of venereal disease per 1000 of the Hongkong European Garrison average for five years 1918-1922.
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greet one. About 90% of those stating they contracted dissese in registered houses, correctly identify the source.
Those stating that they contracted disease from an outside
source practically never identify the source.
Comparison of the venereal incident rate among the Chinese
population and the civil population of England.
(a) Among 500 adult male coolies in the Government Civil
Hospital admitted for other diseases 27.4%
definitely positive Wassermann reactions, and another
12.7% possible positive reactions.
The probable minimum syphilis rate of the Chinese community
is in the neighbourhood of 40%.
500 similar patients in the Kwong Wah Native Hospital 22.8%
admitted having had gonorrhoea.
(b) Among 1000 patients in the London Hospitel 10.3% of
the maler admitted for other diseases gave a positive
Wassermann reaction. The amount of venereal disease among Urban populations is estimated at 10% which is probably too low.
(a) See lacfarlane and Aubrey.
Journal Hongkong University Medical Society Volumn 1 April 1922.
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Royal Society, Proceedings Tolumn XVI No.4
February 1923.
The native community is probably about four times as heavily infected with venereal disease as the civil population of Ingland.
Venereal infection rate in the Hongkong European Garrison and Home Army compared.
(b) In 1912 the incidence rate for all venereal diseases
in the Home Army was 56 per 1000 of which 22 cases were syphilis.
In 1921 the incidence rate for all venereal diseases in the
Home Army was 40 of which about 9 were syphilis.
In five years 1918-1922 the average incidence rate of all
venereal diseases in the Hongkong European Garrison was
69.0 per 1000 of which 9,87 was syphilis.
(b) See Surgeon Rear-Admiral William Bett, M.V.0., R.N.
Royal Society Proceedings Volum XVI No.4
February 1923.
Present system as compered with unregulated prostitution. In 1912 in the European Garrison there were 54 cases of
syphilis, 149 cases of gonorrhoes, and 75 cases of venerea 1
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