Mise Pleton-Turbervill thinks there decided cause for disquietude about the mul teal; hence "the very fact that the "existing legislation has been carefully. administered in Honskong (though less s0 in Malaya) is to me fan actual' further proof of tts inadequacy."
'She cannot accept her colleagues' view" that eases of ill-treatment of mut tsai are rare: "We don't know." the says.
'In' this connection, Miss Picton-'Turbervill inclines to believe that the unregistered mui. tsal_in Hongkong Fun into many. thousands.
Miss, Piston-Turbervill reviews all the evidence again and urges that the existing laws regarding mut tsai_ in Hongkong and Malaya, be repealed and new laws passed on tines to ensure for closer inspection and rapid speeding up to the process of ending the mut tso practice.
Her colleagues' recommendations she regards as "useful administrative reforms" but, in relation fo the whole problem, she "can only regard them 2 wholly Inadequate.
Miss Picton-Turbervilt includes one picturesque anecdote. "She was Walking" with one of the lady me spectors when a. miserable-looking child attracted their attention. But, fon being asked if she was a mui sal, looked, her reaction was immediate and "downettodden and wretched though dye that Un Malaya the empionment The truth of the water appeary to an wigegistered mul tal by ith Reneraily™ goes. unchallenged "by "the futhoritles, tt ts only when some othe? the un) nas Hech, Sieged that ak Employer "of" an "unrenisteraa mul tal rious risk "of getting into Stelet Watch Kept All three Commissioners pay. warm tribute to the strictness of the General Chiang dent of the Military Affairs Commi sion, has made a personal gift of $100,000 for the relief of the vari Northeastern refugees in the Nort west—Kuo Min,
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