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THE MUI TSAI OF HONG KONG.

A SCANDAL THAT MUST BE ENDED.

[BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN SIMON, M.P.

We reproduce from the " Sunday Times" the following article by Sir John Simon, Sir John is, an ev Law Officer he has

and hered

The Farce of Adoption.. Some six weeks ago, in the House. of Lords, Lord Passfold described

MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG.

12th-News comes this day that the new Canton Government do seize the Customs surplus, but (or so it doth scom) do release the funds necessary to meet the out-, goings upon National commitments. Which, if it be true, do content, re much, for from actions past some Buch step must coine (though I con- done, it not altogether) and now I think taken an wisely by them as they could do. But I fear it

the mat of Home Secretary, and 14, one of the greatest jurists ja British Legal history, at the present time he is the acknowledged" leader of the English Bar. Hong Kong has been a Crown Colony within the British Empire for ninety years. Lying as it does off the coast of Chinn, with a strip it as though it were merely a Chimay displeuse many even so... It is of mainland territory included nose oustom of adoption. If the

rumoured that the Commissioner within its boundaries, and inhabit- House of Commons, debate did noth do come to Hong Kong, but if this ed as it is by an immense populaing alec, it at any

be so, I know not And I give rato scoured tion, the vast majority of which is from the Under-Secretary a cor-

thanks to God that I do but buy Chinese, it has naturally inherited rection and a repudiation of this and sell merchandise for a living, the traditions and social customs of mis-statement. I quits agree,"

rather than hold office in the China, and presenta problems of said Dr. Drummond Shiels, that why any should do so when, if they Customs. Nor can I understand the greatest difficulty for any ad- some confusion has arisen in speak do but robba a Banque in England, ministrator who strives to introduce ing of fue Tai ns adopted daugh and to maintain rules of law and ters. The status of the Mi Ten charges for ten years nad withouten they can live at His Majesty's praction which have their origin inhas no connection at all with that

all the worry the West. "

of an adopted daughter; it is quite distinct." So far, so good. Let us hope that we have heard the last of this excuse. In point of fact, the adoption of girls is very uncommon in the East, and an English official who is Hong Kong mingistrate recently declared in the course of trying, a case in Hong Kong that he always held that there was no such thing as an adopted daughter.

The debate in the House of Com mons a week ago called attention to one of these difficulties and to the urgent need of more strenuous steps, being taken to overcome it. After ninety years of British occupation, there are to-day thousands of little girls in the Chinese quarters of Hong Kong who are in homes other than their own, and who are render ing service there under arrange- ments which they themselves háro had nothing to do with making. and under conditions which from time to time have led to deplorable cases of cruelty which have come

Mr. Churchill's 4ction. When Mr. Winston Churchill was Colonial Secretary in 1922 he was so much impressed with the faults of “the -- Muị | Trai system, and with the impossibility of justi- before the Hong Kong courts. But fying to British public opinion the even in the cases where these little continuance of a status which, Mus Teas are treated with kindness though not lawful slavery, partook (and doubtless there are many in practice of so many of the in- auch), the methods by which they

13th-The Daily Press do start a Fund, to relieve the poor and needy of the dependants of those gallant men, lost in the Poseidon. And I must send my gift as I trust all shall do in a Colony which depend so much upon the King's ships, And I pray the fund will prosper, for though times be bitter hard here, we know not what it

is to wonder whence shall come the bread for our children's next meal. So we cannot abide that others. should thus wonder while any sacrifice of ours may prevent it.

14th, Lord's Day. This day Mr. Bowring, who bath high office in the Government, do visit me and, sitting in the pleasance do drink a glass of my Spanish wine at noon. And he mighty merry at this day's

are obtained and the circumstances/sidents of slave labour, that he News Sheet, wherein, in "Round

under which they are working are absolutely inconsistent with British Dotions of individual liberty, and

A Status of Slavery.

addressed a despatch to the then Governor declaring his dissatisfan tion, and insisting that the whole system must be swept away with

the Table" they do thus finish a paragraph describing Government Ofeials as that curious tribe who describe themselves Your obedient are bound to stir the active sym-in a year. Easier said than done, servant but who do behave encl pathy and championship of all who The officials appreciated the diff like a petty king"; and then, detest anything which approaches culty more fully, perhaps, than the just below in a "sally" do write the incidence of slavery.

zealous Colonial Secretary. The

"Don't waste too much time on Female Domestic Servants Ordi-sinnderers. If the post-man step- No doubt it it technically truenance of 1923 was passed, accord-ped to fight it out with every little that these children are not, in the ing to which it became a criminal yellow cur that barked at him he eye of the law, slaves. In two offence for any more lui Tsai to would never get his mail deliver- years' time we shall reach the cen-

is taken into service or for end. And Mr. Bowring says he tenary of the passing of the British existing Mui Tant to be transferred will have the Editor on the Civil Act of Parliament which abolished from one person to another. ShortList for a pension for so merry a the status of slavery in British ly before this the House of Com conceit This day we read of an Colonies. All the more reason, I mons had been informed that the interview at Canton with Mr. think, why we should strain every number of Mui Tsai in Hong Kong mighty pat with words. But the Eugene Chen, who hath everything nerve to make the reality corres- was between 8,000 and 9,000, and pity of it is that deeds be required pond with the technicality before this was no chance estimate, but na well, which in so vast a country do be the stumbling block, where two more years are passed. But in was based on the recent census. Six

all can talk but few administer. very many cases the history of these years later, when Lord Passfield children is that under pressure of took up the matter with great doler poverty, and in pursuance of a mination, he commented on the fact practice which has been widespread that the best that could be said in China, their parents have parted was that the number these little with them to a purchaser who has girls in domestic servitude "had paid money for them, often through not been reduced." the ngeney of a middleman, so that the children themselves are some- times unable to furnish the names of their father and mother to the official who, under a recent law, seeks to eat particulars in the Government Register.

It Must be Ended.

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15th. I read with great pleasure in the News Sheets that there be good response to the Poseidon ap- peals. The branch of the Navy League in this town do now sponsor the Fund and do collate all collec. tions, which I do trust will be large.. I rend much of the game of Bowls as played upon the last Saturday; which is a pass-time I know not, It is easy to understand how and I do perceive I must enquire difficult it must be to get rid of an search will not lend to Intemper

thereinto. But I trust that my odious social practice, utterly con-ance on the one hand nor to too trary to British ideas, but deeply much Perplexity of the understand- embodied in the traditions of theject. I shall write more hereafter.

ing on the other. And of this sub-

Far East. The officials who are

10th.-News In the debate last Monday honestly striving to end it deserve, Nautilas, which be the under comes that the called attention to crises which bad and will receive, the warmest backwatership destined to travel.

come before the Courts of longing and approval of the British beneath Mr. Tec Toan Tai's Ice Kong, and are reported quite republic. cently in the Hong Kong Press; in which money had been paid for these girls-often small children of

The best sentenes in the recent House of Commons debate was the last sentence. After two hours of talk, in the course of which it might

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Mushroom (whatever that may, chance to be), do break down when on passage across the Atlantique Ocean. But if she do so go amiss in the open sea, I know not how it shall be beneath the ice. This 10 years of age, and even younger almost have appeared that the day too I read that the Aire Forco in order to secure their service na official yiow was less pronounced, do catapilt up to flight a nine domestic drudges. The child has the Under-Secretary moke for us ton bomber air shippe in less than all when he declared, I certainly three seconds. But, as I do say to had nothing to do with the trans condemn the fui Trai system. Mr. Povy, the more serious dif action; her consentor Approval Lord Passfield has condemned it,ficulty do seem to be to keep the has never been asked the money and we are doing everything we craft in the air, when it hath taken possibly can to end it." And the off News also of a dreadful 141 dollars in one ense, 150 in un best help which the rest of us can disaster in France, whereby, at the happen in this Colony. This after the British do be in peril, in 1825 other, 120 in a third, 80 dallars 130 give to the Colonial Office in sup-sinking of a pleasure ship in the noon news of the Annual Meeting they will do no thing of this sort; dollars, or 300 doilies--has been port of this declaration of policy Loire, some three to four hundred of the Indo-Chins Steam Naviga no nor now if any shake a Snger paid to the recipient in the position is ourselves to declare that we are souls parish, and all it seems be tion Company when Mr. J. J. at them lest they beat charges, of a sellor.

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At the Berkshire Assizes at Road ing before Mr. Justice Wright, Rosalie Elizabeth Mary Smith, a 20-year-old Winchester girl, was bound over on a charge of stabbing to death her newly-born child a Winchester.

Mr. Raglan Somerset, prosecut ing, "aald the cass, was pre-eminently

one for which a merciful Act of Parliament was passed,

proßt, but the labourer do be re-named the D.U.D.JANUA worthy of his hire. Of such matters 19th.More rain in spite of Mr. She was alone in the house when

have no clear understanding, but Claxton's forecaste that it shall be birth took place and she did not

would seem that wage earners fine later. And I must speak to know what had happened. She

have a claim prior to dividend him of it, for it may be ho do mean must have stabbed the child almost for the Poseidon Fund do increase seckers. Yet I know not if this can next winter. Some talk that; tha immediately and when her mother rapid and I trust that every bo uphold in pure logic and a comPrince of Wales is betrothed found her she was fondling, and one, who do wish to pa hin sharo position where both do giye and England. But I bellove. It mot. On making tauch of the child shall do so at once. As the nn- both do take would seem best. making up my accounts this week

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Hia đại gi 18th-Some" talk overnight jøt] I find that that my outgoings, do Miss Firmstone, pleaded with the cita dal For I am persuaded International Action about the excede my gettings and I make a judgo to bind the girl over and un- that for every dollar sent, there Canton Customs But Lord! it do vow that my wife, poor wretch dertook to place her in a boma at bond or two. wished, but from but show what poor fools these must abate hor expenses and I

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