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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1937.
KOWLOON CHURCH AND MUI TSAI REPORT
FEARS MISS PICTON TURBERVILL WILL BE OVERRULED
new, or-.
Commenting on the Mui Tsai. In my report I propose a Reports, "The Andrian,” monthly dinance whereby all children who for any reason magazine of St. Andrew's Church, are transferred
whatsoever
their away from The publication of the majority parents for more than three months report on the Mui Tsai problem in shall be reported to the authorities little and if necessary, supervised and Hong Kong seems to leave
Whether the ordinance hope that anything will be done at inspected. the moment to put an end to this is accepted by the Government now scandal in a British Colony. Miss or not, it is certain to be passed in I base my claim on Piction Turbervill, whose minority a few years. report is positive, practicable and the knowledge that when thousands purchased for courageous, is reported to have of little girls are said the following to the London domestic purposes it is desirous Press: "It is only a matter of time. that they have some kind of super-
vision to protect them.
› Unprotected children can be NO DRAGOONING IN made to work all hours of the day
BRITAIN
Sir T. Inskip On Will For Peace
In-
There is no more peaceful de mocracy in the world than that of Britain, declared Sir Thomas skip, Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, in a speech at the Cam bridge University Conservative As- sociation annual dinner.
"
"Some people forget that we in this country are a great democracy,” he said. "The day is past when war could be declared by the King against the will of his nation.
"We are not under a dictator who
and night, can be beaten, starved, ill-treated: They can be trapped into prostitution, taken on as con- cubines at the age of thirteen and cast off at the age of fifteen. The law passed in 1923 says that all Mui Tsai shall be registered. Good authorities estimated that there were 10,000 of these girls in Hong Kong but only 4,000 were register- ed. Absolutely no check was able to be kept on the other 6,000.”
Iniquitous System:
The majority report on the other hand, recommends that the present iniquitous system should be tinued, chiefly because of a fear that the measure suggested by Miss
con-
can dragoon and drive a popula-Picton Turbervill would lead to the tion into some adventure over which registration and supervision of
every girl in the Colony! they have no spirit.
"I believe there was never a na- tion with its mind more set upon peace than the British people to- day."
achieved This Government had that position for Great Britain by insisting, amid all the difficulties of the last year, upon the compelling duty which they felt of rearmament for defence and peace.
The truth is that there is a large section of the Chinese population in this Colony who wish for no change for purely selfish reasons and the Commission seems to have been unduly anxious to give them no offence.
The
progressive and student classes among the Chinese are al- most unanimous in their desire to see an end put to the system. The Government now has before it
the
choice of allowing slavery (though in a disguised form) to continue in this outpost of the Empire, or to have the law enforced even at the risk of upsetting the
elements in conservative **
Chinese population.
"I do not think I am optimistic if I say that when I see the impres- sion our armament policy has made the nations must realise there must be more sanity and more prosper ity in a policy of universal disarma- ment than in any mad race to com- pete with each other in armaments.” Socialists' Gibes Earlier in his speech, Sir Thomas attacked the Socialist party for its **jeers and gibes" at foreign nations, which provoked angry feel- ings and might lead to unintended consequences.
He described the many com- munications which he received from unknown people. Someone had written to him recently recommend-
metal
SOCIALIST WALK OUT
"Red Flag" Sung At County Council
the
Members of the Socialist party
ing 12-inch shells which would con- left their seats at a meeting of the tain yards or fathom of wire, and, Middlesex County Council as a pro- of the by the operation of a clock time test against the method fuse, would enmesh the propellers of election of aldermen. an oncoming aeroplane.
The Socialista nominated six of "Every week," he said, "I get their number as aldermen, but the ideas. But they are always an idea 14 elected were nominees of the and never a plan of carrying them Municipal Reform party, which into effect.??!
holds a large majority of the seats. Referring to the rise in
After the election Mr. F. Messer, prices, Sir Thomas said that it had P. for South Tottenham, said been suggested that the rise in these he wished to draw attention to an prices was caused by speculators obvious political discrimination in who were grasping at the opportun-that County Council. The London ity which the Government's rearma County Council, on which the So- ment programme gave them. **cialists held the most seats, had
**"It is nothing of th
· Bort,"
given the majority of the alder said. "The copper required by the manic seats to their opponents. Governmenta rearmament's pro- He then moved the adjournment gramme is only 10 per cent. of the of the Council, but his resolution copper required in this country. The was defeated, and the Socialist from the Council fact is that there is a world short-party walked
"The Red Flag" Was age, and the good old law of sup- Chamber. ply and demand is resulting in a sung in the vestibule, and after rise of value.”
three cheers members returned.