HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937.
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MUI TSAI COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
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Two inspectors or inspectresses of mul that should be employed exclusively on detection.
station
and
The Commission's muin recom- mendation is that the polley laid down by the Secretary of State in 1929 and adopted" in full by the One of these should be employ- Government of Hong Kong shoulded to watch arrivals from China be continued by that Government; at the railway and that the same policy should wharves. be given Its full effect in Malaya, Three additional inspectors or where, up to the present, it has inspectresses of mui tsní should be only been partially adopted. appointed
Specific proposals are as follows:
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The law should be amended to empower the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs to require the custodian of
a girl who in his opinion is in danger of being treated as a mui tsal to security for her proper treatment. It should also em power the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to detain the girl in a place of refuge if she is in need of pro- tection.
Where the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is empowered by law to de- mand security for a giri's proper treatment he should also be em- powered by law to make the girl subject to inspection in her home by an oncer" of Government.
HEADING FOR ECONOMIC AND
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SPIRITUAL RUIN
and life? Did the Dark Ages kill Christianity? Is there any power which can withstand the power of the love of God? If you -belleve there is, even for a single moment, then you have never known. God nor Christ The modern Christian needs sadly to revise his concep-
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*THIS IS WAR"
coronation and rededication. What I ask are we to rededicate and to The contest (It is understood ! whom? beforehand) is won by the nation
And most important of all, why? As a nation, are we to whose Government accents the
give our lives to the God whom slaughter at its men, women and
others have defined for us, who children with the greater fortitude,
is a God who countenances war and it is naturally a matter for
as a method of establishing His constant prayer among the faith-Kingdom, or are we to give our tion of God. We have heard, per- ful that the slaughter of the op- lives to the God of Jesus and Hishaps too long and, too much, or posing nationals shall be so in-
eternal love? That is the choice tensified by God's help as to be-
which before us as British Inclusion of women in the Po come beyond bearing. When,
citizens, this year? Are we to be Leung Kak Committee is suggest-after a lapse of months or years, loyal to Christ or to the British
the fortitude of one Government Government? It is gives way, the Government of the winning nation settles the original to the uttermost in our minds and choice and one which will test us cause of dispute by taking as much of the loser's wealth or territory sa
hearts. Are we to trust in God it can profitably assimilate.
or in the devices of our own weak- ness and sinfulness?
A woman Assistant Secretary for Chiness Affairs should be appoint
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FLACE OF REFUGE
A separate building to be used as a place of refuge for ex-prosti- tutes should be provided as soon as possible.
This is war. No Church condemna The minimum atatutory wages. Bishops approve heartily of it. of a mul tsal should paid to Accredited Chaplains accompany the Secretary for Chinese Affairs the combatants to see that the on her behalf.
religious side of their life is not neglected.
MURDER
Does And ¦
ernment's policy on the abolition Publicity in regard to the Gov- of the mut tsal system should be promoted by the display of posters
What does it all mean? and the distribution of leaflets. (a) The age limit in the Pro-
one laugh or does one cry? A philanthropic society Or In- verily It is d quandary! It may tection of Women and Girls Or- stitution maintaining an effective be urged of course that this which dinance, which provides for the re-employment bureau for women I have quoted is true of an offen- moval of a girl under 18 to 3 and girls might be given an ap-ave war but that defence is justi- place of refuge if she is being propriate grant. from public funds Bed. Is murder, indiscriminate and used or is being trained for Im- at the discretion of the Secretary brutal, ever justifiable before the moral purposes or lines in or fre- for Chinese Affairs. quents a brothel should be raised
God and Father of our Lord Jesus to 18 and the grounds of removal
Christ? Can
any professing should be widened to correspond
Christian answer a solemn 'yes' to with those in the Straits Settle iments Ordinance, (b) Either lu- proper treatment of a girl or the girl's unwillingness to remain with her custodian should be sufficient grounds for the intervention of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The employment if a female un- der 12 years of age as a domestic servant should be prohibited by law.
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The six months time limit for prosecutionS for the offence of bringing an unregistered muf tsa! Into the Colony should be remor. ed
HONG KONG AND MALAYA Approved homes" and institutions prepared to take charge of girls removed from their custodians by octal
action should be given liberal financial assistance by Government.
The formation of Child Welfare and Children's Aid Societies should be encouraged and such, societies should include in their activities propaganda to promote the Gov- ernment's policy of abolition of the mul taal system.
MINORITY REPORT
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vestige of a Christian conscience that question and retain a single
or a Christian spirit? If the young man in the parable who had kept all the commandments from his youth but lacked that essential disinterested love without which God, if he was turned away by no man can enter the Kingdom of
Christ, what must the Christ mind be towards our nations and its leaders to-day!
LAST THIN HOPE SHATTERED A Minority Report, prepared by
For several years one has hoped Miss Picton-Turbervil, is also con-agalast hope that there was some The section of the Offences tained in the report, and in the Christian motive working in the against the Person Ordinance introductory remarks the writer minds of our stateamen, some dealing with transters for valuable states that it is with genuine re- Christian power strong enough to consideration, should be amended gret that she finds herself unable compel a brave adherence to the (1) to remove the limitation which to sign the main report.
way of Christian peace, but the restricts its operation to minors
"The officials administering the past few weeks have seen the last and (2) to alter the method of ex- Mui Teal Ordinance both in Hong thin hope shattered into the dust. clusion of marriage and adoption Kong and Malaya," she writes. England, through the lips or her from the scope of the section. "are gallantly attempting to eradi Government and the leaders of The Female Domestle Bervice cate an age-long evil, appearing her official Church, has renounced Ordinance should be so amended in different forms, with inadequate the Christian way and has under- that a registered mul tsat will machinery... I cannot believe
taken the paths of murder und 'cease to be a mut taat in law and that the added administrative im- all unrighteo PATERS. After much will have her name removed from provements which the majority re- discussion, the recent conference the register on reaching the age port recommends can alone meet concluded with an affirmation, of of. 18.
the situation .... I believe the what British people have consider- answer to the question of whated for centuries their inalienable further steps should be taken to right, the right to criticise the The guardianship of transfer deal more successfully with the actions of the Government. Off- red girls vested in the Secretary problem of child servitude, lies in clally we have not travelled very for Chinese Affairs by a section of the promulgation of an Ordinance
far with Christ, the Protection of Women and of wider scope than the Mul Tsal Girls Ordinance should continue] Ordinance." until the girl is 21, the law being amended accordingly.
GUARDIANSHIP
Every girl in respect of whom security is required should be periodically inspected in her home by an officer of the Government. preferably a womari,
APPRECIATION
The report states: "We wish to put on record our appreciation of the services of Mrs. Stoft and Mrs. Locks in Hong Kong and Mr. C. H. Blaker in Malaya who took short- Every registered mul tsal should hand notes of the oral evidence be visited at least three times in which we heard. They carried each half-year until she is 14 out very efficiently a heavy task. years of age
and thereafter at involving long hours of labour in least twice in each half-year. addition to attendance at our ses-
The police should be given ex-alons.” plicit orders to be on the look-out The Secretary of the Commis to detect unregistered mui tsaision was Mr. John Jeff, and should be given oral instruc-
a difficult
words of
ARE WE PREPAREDY
Christ's which form the tasting;
There are certain point in our decision
tion.
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God's dependence upon OUT obedience to fulfil His purpose for this world. God is greater than man. greater even than Christ, and His will be dihe on earth aa it is in heaven; there is nothing which can mar the power of His love or break the eternity of. His will, and His will is righteoumass and peace and goodwill, and we can only share in it by preparing ourselves to suffer anything rather than go against it.
A CHRISTIAN PACIFIST To men, who were torn between Caesar and
And so the choice resolves itself, God, Jesus said, "Render, unto
Christ and God, with peace and Caesar the things that are Caesar's beauty and love in our hearts and and unto God the things that are gentleness and good work upon God's."
Are we prepared to do our hands, with our minds dedical- that? Let us examine the adius-Art and Philosophy, in Economies ed and striving, in Science and
Who and what was Caesar to establish the mind and peace of and Industry and Religion, to the fellow-countrymen of Christ? God among all men, that, or the He was the head of a much-hated uncertain absence of war, with a foreign power. He was the repre- constant fear of all men, our hands sentative of the nation which had wet with blood and no sooner dried enslaved the Jews, blighting their than they are drenched again. hopes of Messianic glory, crushing with our minds given over to the their national pride, mocking their present system of lying and cheat- sacred religion, defiling their Holying and exploiting, lusting for po- City with his idols and his sin wer and more power in order to And yet Jesus said, "render unto
be able to preserve a superior at- Caesar the things that are titude to the rest of the world for Caesar's" to make it thoroughly no reason at all except that a appileable to ourselves we need to select few of us may, gloat 'over put it thus, "Render unto Hitler (or wealth which we have never Mussolini) the things that earned, or earned wrongfully, while Hitler's, and unto God the things the remainder of society has to that are God's." Unless we are struggle for the very right to liye. prepared to go as far as that with That is all in the choice so easily Christ, we will betray him to the expressed in peace or war! That world again as did Judas and fel- low Jewish nationalists.
is what it means to be a Christian pacifist!
are
exercises &
THE TASK
It may seem a terribly hard way of putting the question, but
To essay in the face of incredible It is the only possible equivalent evil a more incredible happiness, of Christ's words. It make non-that and that alone is our task. sense of that queer mythical thing The Christian paclist does not; we call our national honour and fear war nor death nor evil, he sends us, back to define our termi fears God and loves Him in Christ of life and thought upon funda- and never under any circumstances mental things It means that it imaginable can he raise his hand doesn't matter who
to kill his fellow in God's eyes. To temporary lordship over our ma- him, death is not an end, it is a terial lives, one is our master, even beginning. Life has no limits Christ? Are we as a nation prepared which time and space can mea- to dedicate our lives in that way sure. Pain has no terror and the and to that extent, any other re-
grave no depths. For him to live. dedication ta valn? Are we, as is Christ. and to die is God, God's individuals, prepared to accept will in everything to rejoice in and that as the criterion of our loyalty to enjoy. to Christ? If we are not, then there is something seriously wrong with our religion and with us.
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It is to the attainment of that mind, the living of that life which Christ calls us, but before we can start we must renounce many things, many false glories and falzer fears, and rededicate our selves from all spiritual domina- lives to God in Christ, treeing our- afraid, because we do not belleva, tion by institutional minds, from that God is what Jesus Christ said. all leadership which is less than and revealed Him to be the God Christ's, from every programme and Father of all men. If we have and politic which is less than his bellef all things are possible except full Gospel. It means that in our sin. If we know God as Jesus some open honest way we must knew Him we know, no other fear. show our utter disapproval and nothing else, nor war, nor tyranny, statesmanship which is confound- The man who tears God fears hatred for the ways of modern nor death itself. That is the true ing our citizenship with sin, and too precious to give up for Christ, but simple plan of Christ. Christian mind. There is nothing affirm our allegiance to the great.. even those things which
RECORD OF AIR-RAIDS
WE ARE AFRAID
What are we to do? Even the
There can only be one reason slight consolatory hope that Brition, and that is because we are why we should refuse such a posi- tain will be humane in
war is gone too. Here is a record of air- Falds on population during the
the German civilian last war. In 1915 there were 51 bombing raids of which 7 took place at night. In 1916 there were 98 at- tacks of which 75 were bombing raids at night. In 1917 there were 175 of which 130 were at night. Mark you, these were at- tacks on the unarmed population of towns and elties, on The report is printed and pub- and children, and the plans xtter-fathers bought with their lives. tion on the subject from time to lished by His Majesty's Stationery ly baffle- time.
description which the Office, London,
Allies bad made for An attack upon Berlin with, deadly, Leviate gas in the Spring of 1919. Even If it were possible to imagine a humane war and a just cause, do
THE LATE MAJOR REEVES
A LOST CAUSE
reason the Martyrs' The death of Major E. 6. Reeves been a favourite scene for the ex- has robbed the Rye Golf Club of
ploits of exuberant youth, but
For some Memorial at Oxford has always
women
OBJECTIONS
our
LONDON-CAPETOWN FLIGHT
London Feb. 27.
But one can hear ali manner of objections! Would it be right to allow the anti-Christ spirit, evident in modern Germany, to prevail over the world, and many Flight-Lieut. David L'ewellyn similar questions? And the answer continuing his Capetown night, to them all is, would It prevad arrived in Cairo at 6.20 a.m. G.M.T would they prevail?
to-day and two hours later de- Did the power of Rome prevail parted for Khartoum.- center, or more Christian, to blow over the Christian faith in God British Wireless. out a man's brains, rather than
you think that with that record our behaviour in the next, war would be any cleaner or decenter than it was then. and in the final
a woman's? Does the sex of a legal punishment of a murderer? victim make any difference to the
SPIRITUAL BUIN
a secretary who during the last 12 nothing in its history would have analysis, is it, any cleaner or de- yeare has served the club in part surprised its plous builders more cularly difficult circumstances. The bother about the road which ran than its use on Saturday as the through the course, a reconstruc-site of the proclamation of "King tion of holes, and a possible change Ireland." Before the war senti- Rupert I. of England, Scotland, and in the whole atmosphere of the mental Jacobites used to honour club was overcome by the quiet and unobtrusive tact of Major the birthday of Princess Marie- Reeves.
Therese of Bavaria, descendant of Charles L's youngest daughter and heiress, on legitimist principles, of the Great War, and had been, apson, the Crown Prince Rupprecht the Stewarts, but the fact that her prenticed as a golf secretary at Aberdovey, he brought to Rye all became a prominent German gen the qualities which made him re-eral killed this last relic of an spected by members and servants
clent enthusiasms. One cannot alike. He always had time in his think that, outside of Oxford bastest of days to attend to the much will be heard of the Jacobite calls made upon him, and, al- revival.
A soldier who had seen long service in The Butts, lost a leg in
though he suffered during his later years, the course, the condition of
the patting greens, were never their ground was attacked by that beyond his fatherly attention.
plaques de premium
He was an expert on various He married Bybil, the daughter kinds of grass and weeds, and his of Mr. W. Gay, and is survived by experience of leather-Jacketa" two sons, the elder of whom has was so deep that he was consulted beet Army golf champion, and by the Committee of M.C.C. when one daughter.
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Again I ask, what are we to do? Our present Government has economic and spiritual ruin such started us headlong to an abyss of
Of course. It is true, that unless as we have never before known. war intervenes, we will experience a wave of false prosperity by ex- pending huge sunds an which is unproductive, or at the best productive only otts own destruction. Already, the metal market la worth vital considera- tion; fortunes are going to be made out of helilah life-destroying machines. Mammon will prosper through an avalanche of in until It is carried to the utter depils of
rule and self annihilation.
Yes, it is a terrible picture which we have to confront in a year of
Major and Misi Richards were among the spectators st the Annual Bacing Carnival. In the background is seen the Hon. Mr. I I. Paterson (with cigarette in hand) chatting with friend.
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