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new drive in China is now in course of organisation in Shanghai. The League's task is to stimulate this impetus to re- form and to direct it into the most profitable channels.
Pasteurisation
One apparent misconception is removed by the Government's letter on milk pasteurisation, published elsewhere in this issue. It seems to show that the deci- sion to procrastinate preceded and was not a result of the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo's questions in Leg- islative Council on Wednesday.
That much stated, we fail to see that it alters the position of the Government in any way that Hong Kong, Saturday, June 26, 1937. borne appears to have talked of is vitally important. Lord Cran-
PROTECTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN
panic legislation. This might have been true of Poole. Here in Hong Kong, the panic seems to have developed after the legis lation, thereby doing, as we have An interesting report on what maintained, an ill-service to the the League of Nations is doing community.It is not sufficient for the protection of women and to show that the Colony's lead- children will come before the ing dairy is supplying nothing League Council shortly. It is but pasteurised milk. The whole
Colony is entitled to protection. being submitted by the Commit- We feel strongly in the matter tee on Social Questions, which is because the so-called pasteurisa- now taking the place of two tion controversy has long been former League bodies, that virtually, a myth. Because the which dealt with the traffic in trouble to satisfy the last rem- Home Government is taking the women and that with child wel-nant objection of a few die-hards fare.
that the grounds of their opposi- tion are hopelessly unsoundly It is a noteworthy fact that based seems no justification for increased demands upon its tardiness here where the pro- energies are part of the price blems of milk contamination are which the League of Nations has so very much more urgent. to pay in those branches of its
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work which have proved most
successful. Thus its humani- The Liberal Assembly
tarian and social activities are
always expanding in scope. That The recent reorganisation of is why some reorganisation has the Liberal party had a stimulat- been necessary and the Commit-ing effect upon the annual con- tee on Social - Questions has ference which was held at started work on an ambitious Buxton. programme.
There were clear signs of re- Behind the present efforts to viving hope and confidence in the stamp out what is popularly speeches and the pervading at- known as the white slave traffic mosphere of the meetings.
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although the League insists that coloured peoples shall be The new optimism was well protected as well ***are world-voiced in the speech
of Lord wide investigations into the ac- Meston, and the conference v was tual conditions of this evil which also distinguished by the re- League experts carried out some emergence into active political years ago. Armed with accurate life of Sir Herbert Samuel. He knowledge and making full use moved a resolution on the re- of the weapon of publicity, the storation of economic health in League has been in a better posi-the world which forms an essen- tion to press individual Govern- tial part of the policy for secur- ments to institute: long-overdue ing peace and disarmament put [reforms.
forward by the confer- ence. British policy Sir At its previous session, for ex-Herbert urged, should be ample, the Committee had before directed to easing the tension Lit a mass of information on the between the nations which have steps that are being taken in and the nations which have not. different countries for suppress-Freedom of trade was an essen- ing the exploitation of prostitu- tial step towards this end; but tion. In one respect, the white the British Government was pre- slave traffic is like the drug vented from taking effective ac- traffic or the arms trade. Its tion because
pledged to worst: excesses are-inspired by Protection and wedded- to Otta- the motive profit. Whether wa. Hence the request to the in the West or the East, the Prime Mini
Belgium to licensed house system has in the do what ought to be done by past enabled commercialised vice Britain's Prime Minister.