To the Editor of the "Norra-Caixa Dairy News"
Sin,—I take the following from your "day by day column" for "Dr. George Chien Hsu, the Christian Minister of Justice in Canton, has petitioned the Canton Government asking that legislation be enacted prohibiting the purchase and sale of slaves.
But what about His Excellency the Governor and the Legislative Council of Hongkong? Is it possible that they no belong chlistian." Questions regarding the muitsai have repeatedly been asked in parliament and the answer of the Colonial Secretary has invariably been that he has beea assured by the Governor of Hongkong that the status of those little ones is very far from slavery. They are adopted children and are always treated with the greatest kindness.
I was myself once in a Chinese home where the son and heir, a boy of some five years of age, was howling as a child sometimes will. "Why do you not give the child what he wants?' demanded the mother. "He wants fo pinch me" replied the little slave girl—in that district called a ya: tou. "Well, let him pinch you" was the reply.
did" said the unfortunate mite of a nurse," but he is crying because he can't pinch till the blood comes."
This was a specimen of the "kindness" usually meted out to these poor little girls. Now that the Cantonese Chinese are giving a lead perhaps the representatives of that country whose proud boast it is that the slave whose foot touches its free soi] is a free man will muster up courage to follow 86 good an example.
I am, etc., J. Darrocz.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.