12-Year Old Slave Purchased for}
A Total Sum of $312
Front Our Own Comesronoet Amoy, Aug. 22.
In Kulangsu_a notice was posted for two months to the effect that this year all adopted children must registered with the—munlelpal council. Not one registration entry was made, 50, it had to be assumed Kulangsu was exempt from this peculiar Chinese form of child slavery. Last Friday morning at four o'clock, a little girl, some twelve years old, went weeping {o the jetty and asked a sampan man to take her to Sung Soo, which is on the mainland, and is the starting lace of the molar-buses for Change An old sampan man soothed the Hiitle irl and asked her why she jerled and "why she wished to go to Sung Soo. The child told him that she came from Shanghai; she had been bought there by one Eng Gnat who hada shop quite near to the jelly. The price he paid to purchase her was $212, She stated, further. that because her mistress beat her daily she wanted to run away to Changchow.
The sampan man took her to the Municipal Police Office, where she again told her story. Eng Gnat was sent for and asked why he had not registered the child according to the notice that had been before the public so long. 'The body of the child was examined; it was found to be covered with great blue weals, the result of many unmerciful beat ings. 'The child was sent to the home that' Kulangsu supports for children of this description.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.