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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 4th October, 1921.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.209 of the 22nd of July with regard to two cases of ill treatment of mui tsai in respect of which Police Court Proceedings were taken.
2.
The report of the case tried before Mr. N. L. Smith, as given in the Overland China Mail of the 23rd of July, 1920, is substantially correct.
The Magistrate apparently accepted the defence that the injuries inflicted on the girl were due to an attempt to oure a skin disease by the application of Jayes' fluid, but held that the mistress had been guilty of negligence in not securing proper medical attention for
the girl.
After the discharge of the girl from hospital she was sent to the Po Leung Kuk where she remained until December 1920, when she was handed over to her mother on the latter entering a bond that she should not be trained as a prostitute or again sold,
3.
With regard to the second case the late Mr. Hutchison's judgment is correctly quoted in the newspaper report and explains clearly his view of the case,
On on which he expended a great deal of care and thought. the conclusion of the trial the girl was placed in the Po Leung Kuk, and in December 1920 was given in adoption to
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,
&c.
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