Simon, has written a book called Slavery," which is due for publication by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton within a month. Here is an interview with Lady Simow taken from the "Evening News":—The object of my book is to try to bring before the public the exe tent to which slavery is carried om in different parts of the world, Im Hongkong, which it should be membered is a British Colony, there ave 10,000 slaves. Little children ere bought when they are very, young by merchants and sold at profit much in the same way that cattle are bought and sold. In Abyssinia there are two million slaves and in China there are another two million slaves.
"The League of Nations has now agreed to an Anti-Slavery Convention, and everyone who asks for seat in the League of Nations is invited to sign the Anti-Slavery Convention and report what they. are doing to abolish slavery, But people must be told what is happening in Hongkong, for it is under British rule. "It appears that slavery there is actually on the increas: It is very hard to prove, of cours because slaves are not' registered und the merchants who obtain these children and sell them during their lives have an excellent way of evading the issue of slavery, 'They call the children adopted' children, but even than there is evidence of money having changed hands with the transference of a child from one person to the other.
"I know of one case where a mother had to cell her Little child of eight years of age to pay for the funeral of hor husband. Now she cannot recover her child as the years go on unless she can get together enough money to buy it bad That is an awful state of affairs under British rule!
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