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'the keepers of Chinese and Japanese brothels
    frequented by Europeans have retained private practitioners as
    their medical advisers, and a small private lock-hospital has been
    instituted for Japanese women.' This followed on 33 prosecutions
    instituted by the police in respect of 89 complaints made by
    soldiers and sailors of the British forces. Page 35 and elsewhere
    show that prosecutions have taken place of 'sly brothels,'
    competing with the 'regular professed brothels.'

    "It is to be hoped that this Blue-book will, with facts now
    being published in various parts of Europe and in America, draw
    attention to the necessity of a new movement (supplementary to the
    great movement now on foot for the suppression of the 'White Slave
    Trade'), for the suppression of the 'Yellow Slave Trade,' which is
    becoming almost world-wide in character."

As the supply of girls both in Singapore and Hong Kong comes very
largely from Canton, let us first describe the conditions we found
there. Our Journal of February 14th, 1894, reads as follows:

    "We went in company with a missionary and a native, both of
    whom could talk both English and Chinese, and visited some
    'flower-boats' on the river. Many of these boats are quite
    pretentious, with their rich wood-carving, fine furniture,
    and gaudy display of tinsel. There were whole streets of
    them,--floating houses moored together; we walked along the length
    of the street on one side, stepping from the bow of one boat to
    the next, the bows of the boats constituting front verandahs. We
    called at