Teleaphic:
-UNYOKE, CHURTON, LONDON."
Telephone:
65 VICTORIA.
The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society.
(in which are incorporated the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines Protection Society).
SECRETARY:
Travers Buxton, M.A.
PLANISING SECRETARY:
John H. Harris.
no
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DENISON HOUSE.
1313
VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD.
IRF
LONDON, SW. L. 1.
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LOSTO VICTORIA STATIONS.
3th January,
10%.
To:-
The Under-Secretary of State fort! Oolonies,
Colonial Office,
Thitehall,
sir,
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261
5/1921
We had tu acknowledge your letter of the Attwani, enclosing a copy of a Minute on the Yui Teci syster in H by the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
Kong,
In the socol paragraph of your letter you ntato that the criticians of the gyrtom are hased mainly on an origous use of the word slavery. We bug leave to call your attention to the public Meetings racantly hold in Hong Kong, when this quostion was discussed, and to the correspondence, arisi“_ out of them, which has been carried on in a Hong Kong Press. At the l'ass Nesting of Chinese residents on the 30th of July, the Hon. Lau Chu Pak, who defended the systom, admitted the existence of kidnapping and the sale of both. hoye and sirls, and also that there are cases in which girls are bought under the guise of adoption, with the deliberate intention of r.- Further, I am to call your Belling thom for prostitution. attention to the statements mado, that the ownore of tls "ui Tsai have a dominion over then compatibl, with ocuplata
ownership,
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Wand any work or service that they pleasɔ, can punish them at will, and, if desired, can take then as concubines. In the opinion of our Committee, therefore, the use of tin word slavery cannot he said to h: invilious an
Inappropriate.
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