No 334.
J
3487
RECEIVED
19 AUG 1929.
COL. OFFICE:
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG 18th July 1929.
My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of Lieutenant Colonel Amery's despatch No. 126 of the 23rd of May 1929, requesting a report on the circumstances of an alleged case of cruelty to a "mui-tsai", published in the "South China Morning Post"
of the 29th of March 1929.
2. The facts are as follows:- On the 26th
March, 1929, a woman u Kwai-hing went to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and complained of the treatment to which her daughter, Chung Kei, had been subjected by the person under whose control she had
come. The usual statements were at once taken from
as many of the persons connected with the matter as could be found; the child was medically examined for signs of ill-treatment by a Government Medical Officer, with negative results, and all this evidence was then referred for advice as to the prospects of successful prosecution to an officer of one of the legal departments, who gave it as his opinion that on the evidence submitted there was no hope of a conviction
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
10RD PASSFIELD,
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