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The question is complicated by the fact that children of both sexes are also kidnapped, bought in the Empire of China and brought into the Colony, where they become the subject of these transactions, the so-called seller not being the parent of the child.
The Statute Law of the Colony contains stringent and sufficient provisions for repressing kidnapping and the forcible detention of persons, whether children or adults, and the abduction or detention of women or girls for the purposes of prostitution.
The late Chief Justice of Hong Kong, John Smale, has made declarations from the Bench indicating his opinion that the children who...