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 APPENDIX II

The correspondence relating to the abuses committed under the Contagious Diseases Acts in Hong-Kong, illustrates as forcibly the demoralization produced on high officials, as on subordinates, when the State undertakes to organize prostitution.

Sir J. Pope Hennessy, Governor of Hong-Kong, shocked at the death of two women, produced by cruelty and immorality exercised under the ordinances, which were forced on the Chinese by Sir Richard MacDonnell in 1868, writes to Earl Carnarvon November, 1877, and the investigations and correspondence continue under Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Lord Kimberley.

It is painful to observe in this correspondence, that blame, not praise, is the tone assumed in the dispatches forwarded by English statesmen, to the humane Governor who is endeavoring to protect poor heathen women subjected to British rule. There is blame for (77)