'A stern warning ayainst the ad~ erence nf the poorer class to the misdirected religious belief that the Killing by the parents of their newly~ born or sick child will scare away evil. spititg and. thus prevent their future children from untimely death is contained in an order issued by Me. Wu Hsing-ya, the Social Affairs Commissioner for Greater Shanghai.
"The order points out that the Killy of newly-born or sick children ig not only most brutal, but also constitutes a criminal offence which en-{ails the death penalty oF w long gto! term for its perpetrators 'The Commissioner has' issued the order in view of the many recent discoveries in deserted places of badly-mutilated bodies of children who have apparently been killed on the basis of the above superstitious theory.
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