CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 131

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(after speaking to Mr. Ehrhardt.)

Codedosent 1:35pm 20/4/29.

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Your despatch No.91 of 22nd

February. Muitsai I should be glad

of further information as complete as

possible on following points by despatch

as soon as you can.

furnish it with least possible delay.

(1) Apparently a primary difficulty

is to obtain evidence that particular

girls are Muitsai and to bring home to

them their right of personal freedom.

1

A proclamation advertising their rights

was issued in 1922. Have any similar

proclamations been issued subsequently?

If not, would it be practicable to issue

them regularly or even have notices

permanently displayed?

(2) What are the objections in

practice to any system of registration

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of muitsai.

(3) How far is any system of

registration possible whether covering

all

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