GIRL RELEASED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 2

GIRL RELEASED

LIVINGa IN SQUALOR IN A CHINESE HOYEL A remarkable story is told of the rescue from a life of bondage in a Chinese village of a. young white girl, a native of Townsville, North Queensland The rescue. was effected as a lesult of special efforts made by Commissioner Maxwell, head of the. Salvation Army in Australia, and the girl is now back in Australia with hei; half-caste baby. The commissioner recently made one of his periodical tours of Australia, and when he was in Townsville he was told an amazing story coneerning a pretty white girl. It was said that she had married a Chinese, and that the husband had compelled lier to go to' China with him. It was knpwn that she had reached China, but since then there had been no news of lier. She had practically disappeared and her distracted relatives had failed in all their attempts to trace her. Commissioner Maxwell at once set in motion the machinery of his valst ofganisation. But he. had to move v/arily. The facts of the case were sent by cable in code to the h'eadquarters of the Salvation Army at Peking, an dalmost immediately social workers began the difficult task of attempting to trace the girl. It was some time before she was eventually located .living in cpnditions of squalor at the village of Shekki, about 90miles from the Portuguese. colony of Macao. The girl had been living the life of a low-easte coolie woriian, and she had been ignored by her husband in favour of a Chinese "wife." The girl was ari outcast, and was being treated as such by the rest of the community. She suffered many cruelties, and even her child was taken from her. She 'arid lier child arrived in Australia by tbe Taiping at.the end of last month.