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The China Mail
Ninety-Third Year of Publication
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1938.
not a mui tsai The main ob ject of mui taai legislation was evaded and the opportunity for trafficking in' women and girls. grew rather than diminished. The Bill as approved in`` Council yes-
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Hong Kong, Friday, May 13, 1938.
RADICAL REFORM
they have no time for the smaller things. A flat has gone forth that spelling (in the Roman char- acter) must be reformed. When the tourist in future comes, to "Huzi" station he will sit tight and wonder when he is going to reach "Fuji," and will only rea- lise as the famous peak recedes into the distance that he has passed it. And next time WO read that His Imperial High- nęss Prince Titibu is paying Shanghai a visit we may wonder who on earth he is; and if we ask a Japanese he will say, "Why, Chichibu, of course." When we ask why they not spell it so he will reply, "But they do:
Last-minute changes in the T-i-t-i-b-u-Chichibu." new Ordinance for the Protection It seems to make it unneces-
of Women and Girls, passed in sarily harder, but there is a rea- Legislative Council yesterday, son. Hitherto all students of enlarged the scope of the mea-Japanese have got along very sure and thereby enhanced comfortably with the Hepburn its value and importance. As system, devised by a learned originally drafted, the Bill con-American missionary of that. templated a certain control of name. It has been used in gram- girl child adoptions, vesting legal mars, dictionaries, Testaments, guardianship in the S.C.A. of all station names, and a thousand under-age girls who became sub-other things. But it had a for- ject, as it were, to second-hand eigner's name, and that was in- transfer. The primary aim be-tolerable. There must be a. ing to place a curb úpon the acti-national system. So a national vities of traffickers in women and system there is. The Japanese girls for the purpose of prostitu- do not want it for themselves, tion, it was apparently felt that but it will give them great plea- first transfers of children, from sure to add to the difficluties of parent to a guardian, by adop-foreigners. They have so much tion, were less subject to doubt difficulty themselves with their or suspicion and that Government own language that they must be demand for supervision in such excused for passing a little of it cases might be regarded as poli-on. After all, people have a cer- tically undesirable as it
was tain amount of right to insist considered "administratively im-that they know their own lan- practicable" by Sir Wilfrid Woods guage best. and his male colleague on the Mui Tsai Commission. Further advice and consideration, how-
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amendment to the vital clause
that Government, to its credit, It is impossible not to admire may be regarded as subscribing the conscientiousness of the in every important particular to North Berwick constable who the Minority Report, as presented has just appeared in court, ́ ́ on by Miss Picton-Turbervill. It is his own summons and paid a fine as much a triumph for her as it for allowing his chimney to catch is for commonsense. If condi- fire. Perhaps the nearest parallel tions to-day were precisely as to such impartiality in the ad- they were when the Mui Tsai ministration of justice was agitation led to legislation for played by two East African mag- dis- registering existing mui tsai and listrates. Having both offended providing for gradual abolition by riding a bicycle at night with- of the system by refusal to re-out a light, they agreed that the gister new recruits, the caution majesty of the law could best be noted in the speech of Mr. M. K. upheld by each appearing before Lo would have been more than the other for judgment. justified. Conditions, of course The senior magistrate, taking have changed. As Miss Picton-precedence, tried his deputy, and Turbervill pointed out, since fined him five rupees. The deputy the creation of new mui tsal then tried his senior, and fined became illegal, it has been impos-him fifty rupees, justifying his sible to draw line between severity by pointing out that a mui tsai and an adopted since this was the second case daughter. An idea had grown of the kind that day, the offence up that all was well if a girl was was becoming far too called an adopted daughter and to be dealt with lightly l