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Extract from the "Daily Telegraph"
SLAVERY ALLEGED AT HONG KONG.
SECRET MARKETS.
From Our Own Correspondent.
HONG KONG, Sunday.
20/6/38.
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Chinese girls between 14 and 21 are being sold from
time to time at slave markets in Hong Kong for prices
ranging from £8.108. to £17, according to the "Hong Kong
Herald", a British-owned paper.
Likely
The sales are held in closest secrecy.
buyers, who are informed of the date but never of the
whereabouts of a sale, arepicked up by cars and driven 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.