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Slavery in China. A Chinese Statement.

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the Canton Times of May 28th, 1920, is a communicated article signed "S.C.W." and bearing the general heading of "Some Differences ¡Ideas between Foreigners and Chinese",

fter briefly sketching the history of Slavery from the beginning of

the writer proceeds;-

*considering that a hundred years ago slavery was almost a iversal custom, it is not suprising to find that it still exists some places”.....

And the writer continues; "Sufficiently evil in itself, is system is the garbage heap that breeds many other crimės. long as children are bought and sold, so long will kidnapping

hild-stealing, abduction and the underground traffic continue,

se who are too callous to care for the children of others endanger

safety of their own; mothers who employ slaves are setting up metitors for their marital crown. There is no subject in which he modern woman can so distinguish herself more than in fighting for be liberty of her sex, by example, by persuasion, by combination,

peters of Mammon, are you proud to belong to the sex that is sold? hat is the sate of slavery in Canton, the home of the Constitution?

Is not alavery prohibited by law, watched by the Police, terpellated in Parliament, thundered at from High places hated by

and banished to Hong Kong? "Oh, friends, let us put our linkers on, and swear that it does not exist!"

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Extract from a letter written by a thoroughly trustworthy Chinese,

ose credentials can be vouched for, but whose name will not be given

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or fear of action being taken against him by the Goverment, blcy appears always to be to suppress by any means, directly or Mirectly, any disclosures as to the state of affairs.

Comer. H.L. Haslewood,

ar Sir,

Having promised I send you a Chinese newspaper which has been ranslated from the Hong Kong telegraph.

I dare say the reply of Mr. Lau Chu Pak to the question of slavery quite beyond the point

"As I was living in this Colony over 20 years ago I know thoroughly pat of those people treat their girl servants most unkind.

Some of them give their girl servants only 2 bowls of boiling rice nd a little poor meat a day.

As to our usual dinner we have to take 6 bowls of boiling rice a y at least.

Sometimes if a servant wishes to communicate with her parents or atives, she is always prohibited from doing so by her mistress,

My friend spoke to me that he had seen a lady who had a girl Want about eleven years old, She treat her servant very cruel.

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