CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 560

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The Gov :rnor wrote as follows in the report

which Mr.Chamberlain cited; "That such tarma ('hideouL{}

stain', 'infamous system', 'wordia and shameful facts')

should cause annoyance in a community in which the keeping

of mul taal is widespread was miy to be axpected; that

it did so was a matter of notoriety". Further the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs reported at the same time that "Thỏ cluers of the Po Leung Kur" (a Chinese society for the protection of women and girls, which waS responsible for the exposure of practical y all the cases of cruelty, the publication of which has formed the real

strength of the abolition movement) "are mich hurt in their

minds at the monstrous charges which have been made ago ident them."

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The Anti-Hui-Tsai Society, to which the

HALILIMUM refers, is of very regent formation, and

certainly contains fewer prominent Chinese than the Mui

Tsal Protecti n Society, which until the recent decision

supported the system, and which was formed as a direct

outcome of the offence „ivạn by the nethous of the

abolitionists.