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represented the majority view of the Chinese community toward the mui tsai system.
Whatever the truth of this conclusion their efforts supported by concerned groups in Britain had finally moved a reluctant Colonial Office to instruct the Hong Kong Government to abolish the system.
NOTES
Daily Press, August 23, 1917.
1
2
ibid. November 9, 1920.
3 South China Morning Post, November 9, 1920.
Daily Press, January 25, 1921.
6 South China Morning Post, August 1, 1921.
Text of manifesto published in ibid. October 13, 1921.
7 Daily Press, March 22, 1922.
8 Reported in ibid. March 27, 1922.
9 Mui Tsai in Hong Kong and Malaysia — Report of Commission, issued by Colonial Office. H. M. Stationery Office, London, 1937.
Microfilm Colonial Office Records in Public Records Office, London: CO129/474, p. 211ff.
11 CO129/478, p. 759, September 16, 1922.
12 ibid.
13 Daily Press, December 30, 1922.
14 ibid. January 20, 1923.
15 ibid. February 9, 1923.
16 ibid. February 16, 1923.
17 ibid. February 19, 1923.