Hongkong, Oct. 25.
The Chinese in Hongkong are determined to wipe out the slavery system which is still in operation im the Colony. The slave girls are erally Lought for domestic service in Chinese households, being sold in their teens and of course they receive no pay for their services, These girls serve their masters or mistresses until they are: grown up and are married, their obligation to serve terminating only at this stage, The Anti-Mui Tsai Society has renewed an attack on this form of slavery and intends to petition the Government to enforce the Female Service Ordinance of 1923, requesting that all owners of v6 girls should register with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and also fix the amount of wages to be. paid to the mut tsai.
April 14, 1922, the Secretary for Chinese Affaire prohibited the Purchase and use of these slave and at the same time the arrest of certain unscrupulous boy-colters, and atthe close of last nae H notice magistrates displayed a determination in the imposition of tone by one' the guilty parties were sentences for cruelty to these girls} being brought before the bar of by their owners. The effect was justice, A number of pickets have that the majority of those who been arrested, and the Chief of possessed mi tsi took precautions Police did not hesitate to bring and showed more consideration to charges against two of those higher them. Unfortunately, the outcome up. A strong force of police swoop was not what the society expected, ed down on three warehouses filled for the system continued, though to capacity with "enemy goods", [the treatment of the girls was none of which had pissed through somewhat better than before. The regular channels, Society therefore decided to give These warehouses were maintain the owners the opportunity ed by the two boycott official Jabandon their old habits gradually who, when they or their hirelings and at the same time will do its made seizures, had the gools rebest to disseminate propaganda to moved {o their warehouses, that enlighten the public. they, and they alone, The propaganda in some eases financially by the transactions. The produced wonilerful results and value of the: wares stored in these succeeded in bringing justice to thice places has been estimated to thave slave girls who were ill be $100,000 sit the very. mi treated, while in other enses they and there is no telling how many were able to go back to their} thousands of dollars these two parents, officials, unfaithful to their trust, Had squeezed from those who fell into their power.
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