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The Gov :rnor wrote as follows in the report
which Mr.Chamberlain cited; "That such tarma ('hideouL{}
stain', 'infamous system', 'wordia and shameful facts')
should cause annoyance in a community in which the keeping
of mul taal is widespread was miy to be axpected; that
it did so was a matter of notoriety". Further the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs reported at the same time that "Thỏ cluers of the Po Leung Kur" (a Chinese society for the protection of women and girls, which waS responsible for the exposure of practical y all the cases of cruelty, the publication of which has formed the real
strength of the abolition movement) "are mich hurt in their
minds at the monstrous charges which have been made ago ident them."
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The Anti-Hui-Tsai Society, to which the
HALILIMUM refers, is of very regent formation, and
certainly contains fewer prominent Chinese than the Mui
Tsal Protecti n Society, which until the recent decision
supported the system, and which was formed as a direct
outcome of the offence „ivạn by the nethous of the
abolitionists.