CO129-573-12 Mui Tsai system and alleged slave markets 23-6-1938 - 7-1-1939 — Page 15

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remainder claimed to be nieces of the two women YİP LİN and

YİP YẦU, but upon further questioning their stories did not agree and their relationship is also most suspicious.

Letters, documents and over $2,000 in cash in

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various currencies found, clearly indicate that these premises have been used as a clearing house for girls and boys being sold and transported to Siam and Straits Settlements. letter in particular mentions "boys to be transferred" and also gives the names of five of the above girls together with

definite instructions as to how they should be designated.

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The correspondence is sent by one AH CHEONG, and addressed to YIP YAU, 2nd defendant, who states they are her

relatives; and there are also several letters sent from LI YIU

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HING at an address in Singapore to LI FUNG SHI at addresses in Canton and Hong Kong. The contents of the letters, although appearing to be family matters, are of an extremely suspicious nature, and it would appear that they are written in a pre- arranged code, there being several references to sums of money in connection with certain of the girls at present in the

custody of the S. C. A.

It would seem to indicate that there is a connection

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between the LI family and the YIP family, the LÎ's supply the

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money and the YIP's procure the girls, but at present I cannot

find enough evidence to provide the connecting link. However,

I am in communication with the S. C. A. in Singapore and am

awaiting further information from that Port.

LIZ

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李馮

李光鯽

ALING

LI FUNG SHI states LI YIU HING is her son, whose wife 芳

WAN CHEUK FONG, and her two daughters (3) and (11) live with her. The latter three people have spent considerable time in Singapore and returned to Hong Kong to be with the old lady

until her death.

There is however no doubt whatever in my mind that