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LETTERS

June 22, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

PROSTITUTION CLOAK

Description By Judge Of Guide Bureaux

Repulse Bay Rescue

To the Editor.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Sir-With reference to your report

In the Telegraph," may

mitted to make a correction.

be per-

A landlord and tenant case, during which remarks concerning

Tom: About nine or 10 o'clock in the evenings mostly.

And it remains

1.

My friend and I were swimming the Hongkong Girl Guido Bureaux were made, was heard by Mr.. somewhere near the ruft, when our Justice R. E. Lindsell at the Summary Court yesterday. attention was drawn to the plight of a Chinese lady

day and a gentleman The plaintiff, represented by Mr. Mr. McCallum: What hour of the struggling in the water. I went to D. McCallum, was Kwok King-chan, day are the guides most frequently the assialance of the gentleman and who claimed from Tam Kival, my friend to the lady. At the time woman, the first Goor of 2, Stanley

called for? there was a rather high sen running Street, and my friend managed to help the lad to the shore, and I, not being very strong swimmer, gave the ball to the Chinese

gentleman. What happened ther

then was that the Chinese got panicky, he held on to the

with one arm and with the ball other he held my neck. Not being a very strong swimmer I was soon in difficulty and then this Mr. Fung came along and tried to tow us in but without success, as the Chinese was holding on to me and the ball for dear life.

The defendant said she received a notice to quit en May 3 and although You

That is the time business starts.~~ she was to leave on June 1, she stil

open until three occupied the premises. The plain-four, five and six in the morning. tiff also claimed mesne profits, at $45 Two o'clock in the morning, a month, from June 2 until the day possession was delivered.

Telephone in Use And the telephone there is in very. frequent use? Yes.

the landlord.

Judgment was given in favour of

Some of the customers' call on the premises for the girls?--No, never.

sometimes called to hotels, restaur

Tam agreed that the girls were ants, and other places.

Tom said she had been principal tenant for about five years. When she first occupied the house the rent was $40. This was raised to $45 By then I was beginning to lose

about August last year.

How many girls are in this bareou consciousness and the lifeboat came

After reading the notice, Ils Lord-altogether? About five. Including ship addressed along and pleked up the Chinese said. "On the ground that you were

the defendant and myself but not my sister. gentleman, and whereas for myself,

They are all young and vivacious my cries for help brought out a and making a lot of noise

running a women's guide concern girls, aren't they? All of them are European gealleman who helped me premises at night."

on the about 20 years of age. . to cling

on to the boat until we

And they are at your premises to reached shallower

Tam said that after receiving the amuse themselves, somehow, I sug- was fished out of the water. Thanks, notice she instructed her sister to gest that they play, mahjong, have

ground when to the timely aid of

look tils European for another place. Since she had dances, they sing and they chat? Kentleman and also to the foreign | live

Ilved at the house there had been no Yes, doctor who gave me artificial respira- complaint of noises, but when her

This class of business that you are tion, I might not have lived. After sister moved in the complaints were carrying on, is it looked upon by the all's well my friend thanked the received. One of her cubicles had Chinese as A good class of business gentlemen concerned for their time-been sub-let to her sister, who con- or is it ratlier despised? I think it ly aid and now 1 sign myself as be- ducted the gulde burenu. Her slater is high class of business. ing grateful to them.

This letter is written to dispel any ingratitude on my part but to bring the true facts before you.

O. M. OMAR,

RELIEF FOR ORPHANS New Officials Elected By Hongkong Organisation

moved on June 10.

Given Up Business

I put it to you that all Chinese look upon it as a disreputable class of business.If it is not a decent line of business there would not be so many of this sort of bureau in this

makes non-

Tam explained that her sister had not left the premises but had given up her business. The women whu Colony. acted as guides were no more living His Lordship: That on the premises.

to move' as long as the noise was Labated,

sense.

His Lordship: Dld you yourself! Tam: it is not a good he of assumed there was no need for me papers freely. look for new prentices? No. I business people won't advertise in the His Lordship: This type of busi- lon. ness is mainly a cloak for prostitu- Tam: We came out very straight forward...

At the first business meeting of Cross-examined by Mr. McCallum, the new members of War Orphans' Tem soid plaintiff occupied the floor Association at the Chinese Club above her. He lived there with a yesterday Miss Irene Ho Tung was family of about elected Director, with

eight or nine per- Mrs. Chen sons, including two grown-up daugh Her-seng, Assistant Director.

ters. She had n sub-tenant, Invitations were again issued to Hok-hen, who

Lam the following Honorary

was paying $20 Advisers: month. She was Sir, Robert Ho Tung, the Hon.

not on very good Robert Kolewall, the Hon. Sir Shou

Sir terms with him. son Chow, the Hon, Mr. M. K. Lo and Mr. Au Boon-haw, while newly invited to serve as Honorary Advisers were Mme. Sun Yat-sen, Mrs. M. K. Lo, Mine. T V Soong, Lady llo Tung. Mme. K. H. Kung, Mme. C. C. Wu and Mrs. Li Shu-fan.

Other officiats elected were!

that other similar businesses were Tam agreed with His Lordship more often than not disguised pro- stitution, but in her case it was genuine business.

about the noise which comes on, al-not straight forward, there would be Mr. McCollum: Has he complained do this kind of business. If it is Tam: Although we are morried we most throughout the night, in the objections from our husbands. part of the premises occupied by you? He did not make complaluts to me personally,

Tam said the girl guide business had been going on in the premises Secretaries, Mrs. Li Ta-chlu and for about a month and half to two Mrs. C. H. Kan; Child Welfare sub-months. Committee, Mrs. Man Wong and Mrs. Mr. McCallum then produced rev-

sister of defendant. The Kwan Sin Tom Sin-kwan said she was the girl guide business March this year, at the defendant's was started In

premises.

His Lordship: How did you manage to find a place there?-I approached the defendant and she suggested that

Do you

think it is a respectable

T. Y. LI; Finance. Mrs. S. J. Chen cral Chinese newspapers in which I open the guide bureau. and Mrs. Ho Leung: Planning. Mrs. were advertisements of girl guide: 5. F. Tan and Mrs. Wong Lan-ching: establishments and on which phoin-business for young married women? Publicity, Mrs. S. P. Lt and Mrs. S. graphs of the girls were printed. W. Ho; Transportation,

-No. Mrs. Hu Tom said her photograph was on You conduct the business in this Muk-lan and Mrs. Lu Ai-yuen; Gen- the newspaper produced, Kwan Sin bureau? No. eral Affairs. Mrs. Alice Kwok

She (defendant), and was the name of the bureau, but she managed it herself, Mrs. S. W. Ho.

denied that that was also the name

His Lordship: She called you to under which she wished to be known say that you managed it. That is It was not her bureau. She advertised not true? Yes,

LATE NEWS

in the Chinese magazine produced in Judgment was then given for the Court and also extensively in Chi-landlord. Possession of the premises nese newspapers.

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