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DISCUSSED IN, PARLIAMENT.
The full report is now to hand of the little discussion on this subject which took place in the House of Commons on April 25th between Lieut.-Colonel John Ward and Lieut-Colonel Amery, Under Secre tary of State for the Colonies.
Colonel Jons. WARD, mid-Just for moment I will describe my own experi ence. When I was in Hongkong, in 1917, my attention was called to this question, and I wrote letters to the Secretary of the General Federation of Trades Unions, and I gavo report of a case which was tried in the High Court of Hongkong, where for some reason or other the ipse digit of the Judge was to the effect that as the buying and selling of human beings Chinese custom, and that when tak was ing possession of the colonies we had agreed to observe the Chinese customs, and baying, and selling of human beings, if included in that custom, could not be interferred with by us. I called the atten tion of the Federation of Trades Unions to this matter in the latter part of 1917, I asked them to keep it quiet, and I said that while we are fighting and battling with all the forces of our. Empire. I did not wish it to be known that we were tolerating the buying and selling of people in one of our own colonies. I asked them to quietly to the Colonial Office and
50 lay this very case before the Secretary of State for the Colonies and ace. if, the matter could be quietly altered. It strikes me that you cannot get anything quiety altered in this country and you have to make a noise before you can get anything done. I am informed by the. Federation of Trade Unions that the Colonial Offier definitely promised to attend to the matter: if the Federation wouls not make it public property. They promised to see that this Practice was cartailed and as far as possible abolished. Now we are having letters.. from Hongkong, which are about to be published in a paper circulating in London, showing that this buying and sell. ing of human beings takes place quite publicly. Anyone can go and see it done, of and can offer so many dollars for one these girls or boys as the case may be, which to my mind is a most outrageous: proceeding: On this question the doca- ments must be at the Colonial Office, and my letters must be there, copy of the report of the trial to which I have referred at Hongkong aust-be in the pigeon-holes of the Colonial Office, and yet not a stroke appears to have been done to deal with the matter. This seems to use to be so unusual and opposed to our character as a nation that I wonder how the thing has lived as long as it has done. I thought it was only necessary to draw the attention. of the Colonial Office to it in order that 1 should disappear Three years have gone by, and, according to an advance copy of a newspaper sent to me, the thing is still flourishing and would continue to flourish if I had not been allowed use of these few minutes, which I hope will be sufficient to put this inhuman practice
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The UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Lieut-Colonel AMERY): I was not aware that my hon. and galant friend was going to raises this matter or would have taken an opportunity to refresh my mind on the subject. Not very long ago my attention was drawn to it and I made inquiries, and there are inquiries on this subject on their way to Hongkong at this moment. Looking through the papers I came across this verv material point. There is no form of slavery in force or recognised by law in Hongkong. There are no persons who Have not perfect liberty over their own, Bodily self to do what they like, and they are not bound by any perounent contract is to service. What has caused confusion is that there are two Chinese customs. One is slavery which exists in China, and which in no shape or form is recognised in Hongkong There is another practice, and I do not remember the Chinese term for it. which is the adoption of girls and youths for domestic service, in which case a lump sum is paid to the parent or guar dian As a matter of fact, the adoption does not carry with it any power of Chinaman restraint over the person. If a
in Hongkong wishes to pay a sum to the parents of a particular girl to become an adopted immate of his house that girl con walk out of his house at any time.
Lieut. Colonel J. WAED: That may be so in theory. hut it, is not so in actual practice. They remain in servitude for the whole of their lives.
Lieut.-Colonel AMERY: That is Exactly the sort of point on which I wish to get fuller information I saw a letter from the Governor about the time my hon and gallant friend refers to, drawing this very clear distinction between the two entirely different Chinese customs, and confirming ny statement that there was nothing in the nature of slavery in Hongkong-11, as my hon and galiant friend suggests, children are often not able to get, away and are held in restraint, that is a matter I must inquire about I do not think even in this country wither adopted or ather children can alware got away as freely as they would like, and perhaps that is some times a good thing for them. It was sug gested that attempts were made by pro cureure and others to get these girls from their homes, and to that extent the courts
would watch over the interests of those girls and young men. I am sure the hon. and gallant gentleman has done no harm in raising this question, and I am much bbliged to him, but it is just one of those sort of things that we ought to have clear- edupy and if anything wrong is going on, the sooner we put an end to it the better, We could not know what is going on in Liere matters unless some hon. members Look up these questions and brought them to the notice of this House, I shall look into this matter again and as that our inquiries are accelerated.
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