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MR. HARRY ORE INTERPRETS MODERN COMPOSERS.

Almost sufficient is it now to record

.OF

GIANT LNER COMFORT,

THE "HOMERICS" BED-

SITTING ROOMS.

MUI TSAI.

ADOPTION OR SLAVERY?

1

The Viscountess Gladstone writes in the Manchester Guardian —–

Is the adoption of little girls in Hongkong under the system known as mai tari merely adoption as we under tand adoption, or is it realy slavery, and something worse, with a presty Dame!

THE CHINA MAIL.

pand wages in the ordinary way. If of the cruelty that happens to these mu tam were abolished there seems children!

the rule instead of the exception.

no reason why this should not become Mr. Churchill: I shall be glad i my hon. friend will send me anything he has on the matter.

It cannot be that the freedom-loy-

ing British, with their proud boast Subsequently Col. Ward gava potice that under the Union Jack liberty that on going into Committee on and justice are ever to be found, wilf the estimates he would call atten- allows state of things to continae tion to the matter.

On February 16, Lady Arter asked which lays us open to the charge of countenancing slavery within the the Secretary for the Colonies whether Empire.

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he was aware that an infitential society composed of Chinese and British merchants has been formed As long ago as 1880 the Chief]

in Hongkong with the object of secur Justice of Hongkong, Sir John Small, in a formal judgment, declared that

Dr. E. HL. Edwards, in a letter to ing the abolition of the Mustai Mui Tui was slavery and a violation of English law; yet for forty years it the fanchester Guardian denies that system; and whether the Government has continued unchecked ruder the adoption is universally practised would raise any objection to the issue British flag in & British colony. throughout China as a part of te by this society of a manifesto inform- Briefly, mustasi is an established popular religion, and that it generallying the futsal of Hongkong that system for the sale of little operates without injury to the girls, they are perfectly free agents and are girls, by the aid of scents, for a resident in the interior of China at all times free to leave those masters for forty years, he states: What the land mistresses who give them no pay domestic and "other" purposes. Facts are coming to light, and there condition of affairs may be in Hong and offer their services for wages to Mr. Churchill wrote in reply: I am i is a growing demand for an inquiry song I do not know, but I do know bons-fde employers. into the whole question. It was de that "domestic slavery" exists in The "Homeric," the first of the big bated a few months ago st a public China, and that it is a most pernicious aware of the existence of this society. meeting held in Hongkong, and it is system. The victims are, of course, and I can see no objection to them status of these girls: but I will con- sold by poor parents to go- briefly that Mr. Harry Ore gave this new White Star liners for the evident from the press reports that little girls. In many cases they are issuing a statement as to the actual or that recital in his series illustrating Transatlantic service this spring, sails the Chinese themselves are very betweens," who regard their purchases sult the Governor on the point

as marketable commodities and sell On Frebruary 21. questions in the House of Commons by Mr. Charles the historical development of piano from Southampton for New York or easy, and that many of them would

them to the highest bidders. music without adding that the playing Wednesday. A queenly vessel of welcome a reform o: the existing con

The trade is lucrative and lead Edwards and Mr. Robert Richardson WATCHES and CLOCKS was brilliant

the reception.

$5,000 tons, and the largest twin- ditions. Indeed extracts from the

speeches of those who were defending to kidnapping, and at Shanghai on the subject of muitas in Horg for local music enthusiastic,

bara long since learned screw steamer in the world, she was the practice furnish the best argu-restels coming from the interior are kong were postponed at the request of lovers

asstematically searched to see if there Mr. Churchill, who said he wished to that his mastery never wavers acquired from Germany through the ments for its abolition--

Git's are generally bought at age "parents" with suspiciously large have some corespondence with the and his admirers never default. Yester-Reparations Committee.

A striking feature of the ship is the ranging from four to thirteen Prices families. Once these children are sold Governor of Hongkong, as he was not day evening's recital in the City Hall was no exception to this happy ale..

their owners, who can ill-treat them questions and answers in the House,

Colonel John Ward bas Drawing on the works of Claude great number of unusually spacious vary between $10 and $15 for ever they became the absolute property of entirely satisfied with the drift of the

in any way they wish, and even kil Debussy (France), G. Francesco staterooms, fitted for one person only, year of her age. MaEpiero (Italy) and Alexander with bed and settee and other farai people who buy young girls and keep them, and there is no one who will successful in the ballot for a private Skrisbin (Russia). Mr. Ore gave an ture, so that one gets the effect of a thera; one class buy and keep servant interfere on behalf of the children. member's motion in the House of girls for domestic service, and the Those of us who have had to do with Commons He intends to utilise his interesting interpretation of advanced

Varieer was lent to the bed-sitting room. An official at another for prostitution.

the working of ospitals in China opportunity to raise a debate on the munic

Young girls sold for domestic know only too well what it is to have mui tai system, and to try to get programme by three cherming songs inspection on Saturday said the by Debussy sweetly rendered by Mrs. Homeric" would probably come to be service cannot be made to prostitute children brought to us utterly in- something definite out of the Colonial capacitated for work in consequence of Office. Col. Ward has been in the Far East, but whether he enquired AM Bones Smith. Mr. Bowes regarded as the "bed-sitting-room" themselves without their own conseit

the ill-treatment received, and a large Smith proved his skill as a pianist ac liner. She has accommodation for and that of their parents. companying Mr. Ore in Skriabin's 329 first-das passengers, and the

to which we were called were those of no information, says the China E- Concerto. Responding to insistent chief public roots being on one deck,

proportion of the attempted suicides into this particular question we have demands for an encore Mr. Oze played there is a wonderfal vista of green

slave girls whose lives had been press and Telegrapă. three Etudes by the same composer. and gold, white and pink from the

The full programme follows:-

dinzing-room at one end to the smoke-room at the other. 1.-(a). Darsenses de

Delphes..

(b). "Le vent dans

la plaine

(c). Les collines'

Anacapri.

(d). La fille ax

الي

cheveux

de lin....

(e). La Cathedrale zgloutie.

CL Debussy (1562 1915).

Extra: Soprano solo by Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith:

(a). Les Cloches."

Debussy.

(b) Romance... (c). Mandoline.. 2Barumi" 2.G. Francesco

(Gleams):

Malipiero.

(a). Hon troppa leto, scotorole (b). Lento

(c). Vivace, alquante mosso (d). Lazio, misterioso

(e). Molto virace'

A Skriabin

3.-Concerto, op. 20 } (1871-1915).

(a). Allegro

"Homeric,"

“Aquitania,”

There re two distinct classes of

rendered unbeatable. The manner in which some had been tortured cannot be described.

SHANGHAI COMMENT.

been

So the mui tsui in Hon, keng are to

many months now in Parliament, and

Caves

is

at least

as well off

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Those who bay and keep güls for prostitutier generally make special arrangements with the girls' parents and pay a higher price for them.

These are the admitted facts. Every day in Hongkong little girls are

It was stated at the meeting in: The New York services this sum-bought and soid. Sometimes the mer, with six of the biggest shops chil ren are kept as domestic drudges; Caxton Hall, Westminster, that the go after all observes the NCL News aflost, will surpass all records. The sometimes they are resold for pros- White Star Line will have the titution; sometimes they become the system was an inherent part of the The agitation against the toleration the Olympic," and concubines of the buyers. In the Chinese religion." This is certainly of the system bas been going on for Hongkong was reluctant to commit presently the 56,000 tons Majestic," recognised form of contract between pot the case. The system, of course, the largest vessel in the world; and the parents and the buyer ominous leads to many of the girls eventually one gathers that the Governor of the Canard Line will have the popular ciscses ocent such as "to be disposed becoming prostitutes. In only a few himself to interfering in the colony the re-conditioned of as the payer thinks fit" and 400 dages have I known of the slave girls with a practice of great antiquity Berengaria," and the Mauretania." ingairy of her whereabouts or in the being really humanely treated in and wide usage among the Chinese. family, and from my forty years' ex However, the agitators have got Southampton port authorities are event of her death is permitted."

What can be said in lavou: of Perence in Chins I can bear witness their way, whether with results] considering improvements to the deep- water approaches necessary for the allowing a state of things like this to to the fact that the system is an un- that will prove satisfactory or ot it is hard to say. There is a good continue? It is estimated that the mitigated curse. It is past my com mancavring of such great vessels

number of these elave children, prehension that it has been tolerated al, we believe, to be said on both sides of the question. Where the deprived of their liberty and forced so long in & British colony.

mui taai is well treated-and there to work without wages, amounts Information from Kanning, to about. 50,000. Can such a

she is QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS are many who contend that in the

vast majority of ste Kwangst, published by the Gahan system be tolerated in a British Times, says that the bandits led by colony? The official attitude bears Lak Fock-cheung and Tam Ho-ching a sinister and striking resemblance to In the House of Commons on the would be in the home probably who had caused considerable trouble the old arguments that were used to February 15, Mr. C. Edwards asked of her parents and in the district of Yu Kiang, have been defead slavery. For example, it is whether there are any legislative better. And as we have said the totally suppressed by the Kwangtung said that the parents are so poor that Imits to the ages at which girls in system is widely practised in South garrisons for the present. On the if they were not allowed to sell their Hongkong may be transferred for a Chirs and does not, we think, come societies which morning of March 15, when the baby girls they would drown them; money payment from one person to under the ban of the various Chinese

other" anti-kidnapping defeated bandite fled to Kow-fung, that in any case those who "adopt" another for domestic and

do such excellent work in ving they were again seriously attacked them give them far better homes than

On the other hand, it is: by Kwangtung troops and a thousand the parents could provide; that cases Mr. Churchill: No; the whole many potential victims of houses of of them killed. Telegrams have been of cruelty are rare, can be and have system is not recognised by the law ill fame

any distinction between the mui tsai

Chinese cooking was demonstra'ed- despatched by the military office of been punished by law-and so forth of the colony and is therefore not

The final argument is that the regulated.

and slavery and that is a word which the Kwangtung, garrisons to General

cannot be tolerated in connection with at the Cookery and Food Exhibition Chen Chiang-ming, reporting the enlightened Chinese, who have lately great success they have had in sap formed a society for the protection of pressing the bandita in Kwangsi. the mui ts, would rent any Mr. Churchill: I think my hon. the British flag. And while some at the Royal Horticultural Hall.

further action being taken. One may friend is quite entitled to raise the contend that the mui taas leads & Westminster.

The keynote of a Chinese dinner is "Square Rigged" writes from be permitted to wonder what degree question, and when the opportunity comparatively comfortable life, there Wolverhampton to the Daily Mail: of enlightenment it can be that allows occurs in debate I shall be glad to are others, well versed in Chinese In the early part of 1918 I brought the enlightened to support a system ascertain what the general sense of matters, who maintain hotly that the length, writes The Diner-Out in the On March 22 the motor ship tag from Hongkong to Malta for the that is open to such terrible abuses the House is upon the matter. I am exceptions to this consoling rake are Daily Mail. You have a litle of a like macamni, only more so, and they

are truly enlightened anxious they should know what is the many and grievous. "June" left Hongkong for Singapore Admiralty. She was 130 tona grces That there with a small steel steam tcg, the tonnage and 951. long over all Chinese in Hongtong is clear from case for not violently overturning-a- Lion 1." in tow. Two nights later With full bankers and 5 tons of coal the fact that the Society for the Suprastom universal throughout China.

A fine 6-part photoplay from the case of a Chinese banquet given served in a variety of ways-stewed, she lost the tug in a gale. It is not on deck she could just manage pression of mut tai has lately been Colonel Ward: Having explained

production will to Lord Northcliffe, to 40 courses; or tried, sliced, and shredded. You can known whether or not the "Lion '1" days steaming. Some of your formed. They base their objectione only on Feb. 14, that this practic: had was sunk but Southbound steamers readers will appreciate the anxiety to this so-called "adoption" or the been condemned and has been under Thomas Ince's are being asked to keep a look out for and worry of a voyage like this, grounds that it is injurions to public consideration by the Colonial Office appear at the World Theatre to-day it may be a comparatively short have fried chicken with minced

are not contains two episodes in a woman's typical Chinese stort dinner:

Birds' Nest Soup. it. The tag was 80 feet long and had especially on the long open runs, morality, subversive of righteousness, eince 1880, I think the right hon at 5.15 and 9.16 p.m. "The Cast Of affair of nine or ten courses. Here is almonds or with dried sole and vege-

life, one when she is a girl of fourteen unduly hurrying the matter?

Shark's Fins.. one rest and a yellow funnel with a Singapore to Colombo and Bombay injurious to national prestige, and gentleman will agree we black top, She was painted black to Aden, where there is no "half-way economically unsound..

That the suppression of the myi Mr. Churchill: It sounds very working for her living as a waitress; the with white bulwarks and dockhouses. boase" at which you can replenish

The master of the B.B. "Mattawa" your bunkers, and you have to trust teal would necessitate a charge in objectionable in principle, but I be other when she becomes a successful the man who won her confidence has reported sighting a capsized junk to luck and the westher. The actual the domestic arrangements of the lieve that in practice it is not so actress, planning to get even with

families where

Nuts. Colonel Wedgwood: Has not the while a child. The main motive of Stewed Turtle with Chicken and Lotus near ist. 20.34 N. and long. 113.05 steaming time was 36 days 6 hour. Chinese is not to be denied. Already prejudicial.

are many E.. He regards it as being dangerous and the approximate distance 8,800 there

domestic servante are engaged and Colonial Secretary seen any accountal this play is revenge. to navigation.

(b). Andante con variazioni (c). Finale

Mr. Harry Ore's eighth recital will also be devoted to modera composers, H. Balfour Gardener, John Ireland Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, and Eugene Goossens representing Eg land, Selim Palmgren, Finland, and Joseph Wihtol and Harry Ore Latvia.

SAÏLORS TAKE CARE!

ཏི། ཚིག་

miles..

a

services.

Colonel J. Ward: Then why don't you put it down!

BRINGING

IWANT A GOOD CKAR - WILL YOU

CERTAINLY NOT-

I HAVE SOME FINE BRANDS-

CIGAR

1-MUST HAVE A SMOKE - BUT I

HATE TO CO IN. THIS STORE. “ FOR IT-

HAVE TO SEND OUT FER 152

UP

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difficult if not impossible to draw

ན་་

WOELD THEATRE.

FATHER.

1THOUGHT I WOZ -BRANDED FROM THE LAST ONE

I GOT HERE

- CHINESE BANQUET.

SHARK'S FINS, WATER-LIN NUTS, AND "NOODLES."

-

Chicken Pinions with Noodles and Bamboo Stema.

Fried Lobster, with Cucumber, and Chinesa Vegetables. Chow Yee Foo Min. (Fried Noodles, Shredded Chicken, and Vegetables.) Fishhead Gristle with Almond Flavouring. Lychees, Ginger, Lotus Nuts, Almonds, etc, Noodles, (Chow Min), are something

great many, to us, strange and curious are used profusely in many Chinese dishes. And the length is governed dishes, with chicken, pork, lobeter, by the importance of the occasion prawas, and vegetables. and the guests. It may run, as in Chicken is a staple food fand ir

YOU JUST, TRÝ THIS ONE-/

YOU'LL NEVER. “ I GET BETTER:

Duck with Chinese Jam. Fried Noodles (Chow Min.)

tables or with mnehrooms and bamboo shopts in pickled sauce.

Stewed shark's fin with sliced. chicken, bamboo shoots, and ham is also a favourite dish and a special delicacy in fried duck with water-

cut in cabes. lily ant and bamboo shoots with hem

THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID THE LAST TIME AND I'M NOT

BETTER YET!

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