1937-07-03 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1937.

CHINESE CHILDREN SOLD AS SLAVES WALAY IN BRITISH EMPIRE

Lured away from their simple life in peasant settlements, innocent Chinese girls and boys are being shipped to South Africa and Australia and sold into slavery.

This allegation was made by Mr. Chao Lung Wen, chief of police in Hangchow.

Mr. Chao Lung Wen was emphatic in his assertions about this yellow slave traffic to the British Empire, and it is possible that he may raise the subject at the International Police Conference on crime which he is attending in London.

"Hangchow is one of the most cultured and modern cities in China, and we are not greatly troubled by yellow slavers and dope. peddlers. But in the poorer dis- tricts of the South the problem is a

" he said.

real and grave one,'

Big Money Promised

"Chinese themselves are respon- sible for the traffic. They induce

boys and girls of the coolie class to go abroad under promises of big money-an attraction that few of these people living in poverty can resist.

"I know for certain that many of these young people are shipped to South Africa and Australia. When they arrive they are sold-the boys to work in the mines, the girls to enter houses of ill-repute.

"We can do little to combat the menace. The traffickers have evolved an elaborate system of fake passports for their victims. They print these themselves and do it so cleverly that detection is almost impossible.

"Yellow slaving of boys is more prevalent in these days than girls, who are more often sent to the Dutch East Indies and the Malay Straits,

Varsity Nudists Denounced

The habit of boating on the River Cam in bathing costumes or even less extensive clothing is attacked in an article entitled, "The Etiquette of the River" in the "Cambridg Review."

Remarking that there must be few people whose eyes are not made sore by the sights in the Backs on any fine afternoon," the writer pro- ceeds:

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Cardinal Schulte, one of the prime figures in the dispute be tween Church and State in Ger- many. He received a tremendous ovation when he preached on the religious dispute in Cologne Cathedral recently.

EX-QUEEN

TO SELL JEWELS

All the personal jewellery of ex- Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, roughly estimated to be worth more than £200,000, will shortly be sold in the United States, accord- ing to a New York jeweller, Mr. Paul

lato.

Flato said that he under- stood that the sale was for her pri- vate needs, and not for funds for Gen. Franco.

The collection includes the fam- ous emerald cross of 65 carats, ori- ginally given by Queen Isabella of Spain to the Empress Eugenie on the occasion

of a Spanish official visit to the Court of Napoleon III. The Empress gave the cross later to Queen Victoria when she ga away most of her jewels after the Prince Imperial's death in the Zulu war.

Queen Victoria bequeathed the cross to her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, who, in turn, ve it to Queen Victoria Eugenie. It has thus been worn by four

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