Queries in Commons on Effect of Hongkong 1. isolation London, Feb.
4. A tetter has been received from Mui-tsai (fern slaves) in Mongo kon were the subject of four ques: tions in the House of Ca The Colonial Colonel Amery, toxeth he was awaiting a report working of the Ordit c|deatinge withthe matter which wax parsed by the 14 fry Hongkong in February, 1
This reply was rected umber of supplementary: ques Visco Astor, Conservative re la Lawrence, Labour for East La shed when the from the nor of Hong:
sould! be expected.
-Seereta hoped to get the report la of the next few weeks, ted that the lance a foreigner in Sarat}, Suiywan, one the famine districts north of Shans describing the tortures: that fine taking place there, IL suysi—Turing the last Us weeks 4,000 robbers have been ravaging out districts, The rubbers tied the watehmen at the mission colony farm, and burnt him NIL he disclosed where he had cunceiled his stock of millet, the same village some were burnt to death because they could not Uivinge forth foodstutls fol Out of Formers is to pour red-hot coal into their trousers.
The other day the soldiers got hold of a robber chief who was also formerly " soldier, They first mate him sit on a red-hot. xp then pulled all his Jimbs apart by Dancing lunn apy id patting Weights to his feet. They burnt one of hig Hibs and. thigh-bone with hot iron Next day he was put on a and driven to the execution number of mui-Vieax inn being carried was First the cart on which he sitiven over Fearon to believe.
that the author? Mi he having been thrown off, and Hongkong were mot Iie shot throu" his my case of treatment [PERN shoulder purposely wot to Kill there a hel Wiehes to [him After Ulus his stomach was with whom she se) oppe! up, and only then was and to live herself the head, said Colonel A foreign writer ut the letter could he more cruel than comm "it's terrible if you ts before £0 drive these girls from the family [think of it, but at the same tine with whom they are living." this fellow must ne the same Reuter. thing to hundreds of withers
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