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ANTI-MUITSAI SOCIETY
Petition To Secretary
Of State
up by the. A petition. drawn
of Hong Anti-Multsal Society Kong, and addressed to the Sec- retary of State for the Colonies asking for legislation to require notification by, any person who has, in his house. a young female not Ris natural born daughter grand-daughter, is being placed at various centres in the Colony for the signatures of all supporting the suggestion.
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Appended to the petition is an outline of a proposed Ordinance for consideration by the Colonial Office as a basis for a system of general protection for transferred children.
The text of the petition and Ordinance are published in full below
To The Right Honourable His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
(b) Exploitation of transferred children can be of ac subtle and (outwardly) innocent a nature that, unless there exists a system of general protection for them. many of the old evils will reappear under different forms and names.
POVERTY-STRICKEN.
MOTHERS
(c) For
evils to their ultimate source, that
is, to the system of child trans- ference and the accompanying temptation or facility to exploit transferred children.
COMPREHENSIVE REGISTER
4. That your petitioners humbly submit that the benefits to accrue from a system of compulsory notl-' fication of transferred children
are:
(a) It will furnish the Govern ment with a comprehensive re- gister, o! transferred children. which otherwise will be wanting. By this means it will be possible to keep track of a large number' of children öf tender years.
A example, poverty
(b) The very existence of such a stricken mother may be forced by register will enable the authorities her poverty to give her child to ato study the problem of transferred
a friend.
Such children scientifically and intelli- stranger stranger or friend may not wish to gently, and to extend to them ef- present. adopt the child but may be pre-tective protection. At pared to give her food and shelter lack of reliable information greatly return for domestic service, hinders legislation and reform. Existing legislation prohibits the
(c) Such a register will be of giving of a monetary consideration incalculable value in contributing
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Mui Tsal system,
(d) in a Colony where it la dif- ficult to keep track of an inordin- ately floating population, the existence at a register, however imperfect. is a paramount neces sity for securing contact with, and supervisory control over. trans-
the mother is," to that extent. poorer. while the stranger friend is to the same extent, bet- tér off. Existing legislation, how ever, does not prevent the stranger The humble petition, of the mem-
or friend from taking the child Ibers of the Anti-Multaal Society into the house who, in return, for and those in sympathy with the food and shelter must do mental demand for compulsory notifica-service (possibly without pav-ferred children. tion of transferred children. She ment), weth:
(d) Though the law in Hong
1. That your petitioners humbly Kong effectively prevents Bagrant pray for legislation to require not-forms of negative cruelty' which fication to a duly appointed Pro- are known to exist eg. "neglect, tector or Young Women and malnutrition and underfeeding, Children, by any person who has.and though the proposed system In his house, a young female not his natural born daughter or grand-daughter,
2. That such notincation need not be accompanied by a specifica-
of general protection would not and could not rule out such cruelty, still it would give the transferred child some protection since, then, the whole relationship of "noti-
come under the official cognizance of the Protector.
tion of the status of the child in ¦ fer" and "transferred child" would the transferred household, though the Protector may ask the notifier questions regarding the status or condition of such a child.
4. That your petitioners have joined in the humbley prayer con- tained
in "paragraphs 1 and hereof for the following reasons:
(a) By virtue of their close con- tact with the homes and actual conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong and/or their Intimate knowledge of the social life of the Colony,
your petitioners are strongly of the opinion that the Luitsal system is but one of several forms of child exploitation,
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Pres. Roosevelt's Reform Bill
Washington, July 22. The last nail was driven to-day in the coffin of President F. D Roosevelt's Supreme Court Reform Bill when the Senate, by 70 votes
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(e) Further, girls transferred from parental custody may; under certain conditions. be induced either by threat or persuasion, to 2) be professional beggars or pro- stitutes, and be brought up with that end in view, without cruelty being proved. „Alternatively, thesa girls may be made to work in fac- tories or as waitresses in restaur- ants, and surrender their wages to the household' which they' arê transferred.
(f) For the reasons stated, it is vitally necessary to follow these
WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS
Paris, July 22.
M. Yvon Delbos, the French Foreign Minister, received in the course of to-day the Italian Am- bassador, Signor Cerrutti, The Bel- gian Ambassador Count Kerchovs de Denterghem and the Turkish Ambassador.,
It is stated or good authority that the conversaricu between M Delbos and the Italian Ambassador was of the same nature as the dis
to 20, favoured returning the men- cussion between Mr. Anthony Edes sure to the Judiciary Committee and Count Grandi on the day b~ with instructions to prepare, a fore. new bill.
The Italian Government is seek-
The vote in the Senate was pre-ing to give a precise formulation ceded by a dramatic meeting of to its altitude in the matter of the the Judiciary Committee, which withdrawal of foreign volunteers Vice-President John Garner con- from Spain, this being the ques- ceded that the Supreme Court Billion that is now completely do- was "out of the window."
It is stated that the Vice-Prest- dent pleaded, with the Committee with tears in his eyes for a settle ment of the differences, where after the Committee, agreed to ask the Benate for instructions, to draft a substitute measure.
It is understood the new mea- sure will deal only with the lower equrts and will provide, among other things, for direct appeal to the Supreme Court in constitu- tional cases and the appointment of lower court judges on the basis of needs, not the age of existing judges. It is generally conceded that this new plan will prevail in the Senate when It is presented by Senator Logan later to-da7 --- Reuter.
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ABANDONMENT SURE
Washington, July 22, Abandonment of the Supreme Court reform plan was virtually assured to-day by the declaion of the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask the Benate to return the bill
minating the deliberations of the Non-Intervention Committee.
Incidentally, it is affirmed here that France will remain adamant, in insisting that various points should be considered as set forth in the British plan and that the withdrawal of foreign volunteers, on the largest possible scale, should take place before proceeding with the discussion of the conditions under which belligerent rights are to be granted.—
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BRITISH PLANS ARE RECOMMENDED
Berlin, July 22. Germany's desire to see non-in--| tervention in Spain made, effective is shown in the statement issued by the diplomatic news service. this evening. The opinion is expressed that the. dificulties encountered during the past few weeks are due to the shortcomings of the contre
to it, with instructions to draft a muchinery which, it is contenced,
substitute within ten days, dealing should not be repaired but im-
with
lower courts only. Benate voted as requested. Bruter.
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