The Archive · 1931

BEAM IN OUR OWN EYE FIRST Sir John Simon on Slavery

in Hongkong London, Feb. 21, In the cours Sir John Simon, of a speech at Oxford after refe the "tremendous

fed to the position in ate the pote in Hongkong.

said he felt that despite' the efforts made in the Colony there existed "there a condition under which children, especially gits, were attached to particular employ: fers under conditions indistinguls able from slavery.

"Don't let us spend all our time lecturing other people," he added, put see first if we can get rid of all the slavery in the. areas we feontrol and set an example to the fait of the world." Reuter

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