Telegraph:
So CITIZENRY, SOWEST, LONDONTM
Telephone:
VICTORIA 6065
The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society
(in which are incorporated the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines Protection Society)
1938
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THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF LYTTON,
P.C., K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
Secretary: SIR JOHN HARRIS. Assistant Secretary:
MISS E. K. BATTY.
Joint Presidents :
THE RT. HON. LORD MESTON, K.C.S.I. Chairman: CHARLES H. ROBERTS, ESQ. Vice-Chairmen : CHARLES RODEN BUXTON, ESQ.
TRAVERS BUXTON, ESQ.
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THE RT. HON. LORD NOEL-BUXTON, P.C.
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Joint Hon. Treasurers: ALFRED BROOKS, ESQ., J.P. H. J. TAPSCOTT, ESQ.
SLAVERY ALLEGED AT
Daily Telegraph
•HONG KONG
SECRET MARKETS
From Our Own Correspondent
Chim being st
HONG KONG, Sunday. girls between 14 and 21 are
from time to time at slavei markets in Hong Kong for prices Pranging from £8 10s to £17, according to the " Hong Kong Herald," a British- owned paper.
The sales are held in closest secrecy. Likely buyers, who are informed of the date but never of the whereabouts of a sale, are picked up by cars and driver to private residences, where the girls are on view. Prices are attached to the girls and there is no bargaining.
Most of the girls are said to be refugees from Canton. Swatow, Amoy and northern cities, where slave-traders are making wholesale purchases.
To:-
Be
DENISON HOUSE,
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
296 VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD,
R
LONDON, S.W.1. (CLOSE TO VICTORIA STATION.)
24th June, 1938.
?: JUN 1938
Sir,
C PLAY
At a meeting of our Committee yesterday,
attention was called to the enclosed paragraph in
the "Daily Telegraph" of the 20th instant, and I
was instructed to write to the Colonial Office, and
enquire whether you have any information on this
We shall be glad to hear from you in
subject.
due course.
By lo H.K.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
E.K. Balty
Assistant Secretary.