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SOUTH CHINA OFFICE
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1936.
City of
5,000 People
Found from the Air VAT 69
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“LOST COLONY” · · IN
THE
HEART OF THE JUNGLE
There for Ten Years- and
the Government Did Not Know
Singapore, July 25. AN "unknown" city inhabited by 5,000 Chinese and situated in the midst of the Malayan jungfe, has been found by a British Government official while he was flying over the district.
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The oficial, who was employed in the land office of the native Malay state of Johore, saw a large settle ment in the heart of the jungle which! he could not place. Next day he drove to it, and to his amazement discovered the city, which is called: Young Peng.
The Government were totally un- aware of the existence of the town, thriving Although it has been a agricultural centre for nearly ten years, The settlers had occupied the land without permission, and were not contributing one penny in taxen.
Women
Wage
"War"
Chinese
Girls Seek
Place In
The Sun
Shanghai, July 21.
The inhabitants, who are Chinese,
Women of China are waging a work as rubber planters on an aren of more than 10,000 acres. They had determined campaign for a place Inilt the Lawn as their headquarters in the political sun of the nation. and provided it with all the amenilles Their immediate objective is
in the of a native civiliantion,
larger representation
EVEN SUBURBS
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"Suburban villages" were also found National assembly which will ayound Young Peng, and were, in fact, meet at Nanking Nov. 12 to adopt a series of virtual republies hiclen the Draft Constitution and away in the British-profreted State of
place party government Johere, all working peaceably.
rc-
by
The area is only 20 miles from a popular democracy. main rond, but Hes in a region little) Quietly but actively a group frequented by Englishmen.
The discovery at once presented thefof women leiders at Nanking Government with several kuntty pro-has enlisted the support of blems. The chief of these was feminists in all parts of the whether the "cecupiers" should be country. Their aim is simple-- prosecuted for trespass
It was estimated that the land, in-to have the voice of 200,000,000 cluding arrears of rent, was worth women heard at the Assembly. £10 an acre. On 10,000 acres this Declaring that the small num- meant that the amount owing to the ber of women arbitrarily select- Johore Government was £100,000, and the State could i atlord to lose this ed as Assembly delegates con- newly-found source of income. stitutes merely a gesture. the Finally, after several conferences, women leaders hope to bring
the settlers
offer. were made an
h
more
They were told they could pay £10 for into the national councils every sere they "word" and be feminine representation trenied as "retrospective tenants," or nearly corresponding to
get ont.
The Johore Government have now numerical strength, netted nearly all of the £100,000 it expected-United Prass.
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NO RESTRICTIONS Although the Election Law makes no restriction as to the sex of candi- dates, the women point out that ac- cording to the provisions of the law not a single woman is
is likely to be elected. Candidates for the Assembly seats are to be nominated by the village or town elde
elders and district chiefs, but the women maintain that the elders are remnants of feudalis. te society" and highly unlikely to designate any women candidates.
Comparing the plight of women in China-with-that of the negro_in_the_ United States, the women issued a
оп
manifesto calling all Chinese Women lo unite for the improvement of their social and political status.
Alleging that the social lot of the American negro has not been im- proved by emancipation, the man!-
the festo declares that
status of Chinese women has likewise not been the alded by the "lip service" of Election Law.
L
MEN "BACKWARD" An Assembly composed entirely of men, the women also say, will make China appear backward in the eyes of the other nations of the world.
Women in Soviet Russia, the moni- testo reminds the nation, enjoy full hold many and political freedom office. Furthermore Dr, Sun Yat- sen, father of the Chinese Republic, assigned women delegates to the first congress of the Kuomintang, (China's political party), in 1924, and present- day leaders are urged to follow his example.
Leader of the campaign is Mene. Feng Yu-hslung, wife of the man who
to be known as the "Christian
used to
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General," now vicc-chaleman of the WALLACE HARPER & CO., LTD.
the
Military Affairs Commission at Nun- king. The movement has also gained the support of Mine. Chiang Kai-shel who has promised to present women's views to her husband, strong man of China and most potení guro in the National Government.-United Press,
VICAR | SHOCKED,
FAVOURS CENSOR
FOR EPITAPHS
London, Aug; 1. The Rev. J. W. Huxley-Williams, Vicar of Christ Church, Fulham-n London suburb-spent his time while in the cemetery. Walting for funerais to arrive reading the epitaphs and· they shocked him.
He was so moved that ho wrote in hig
parish magazine pirotosting against the "collection of nonsensical deggerel on the headstones.
'.I
llow some of the inscriptions passed the censorship of the local nathorities
Imagine," ho continued He added that they appeared to have been taken from
cannot
the undertaker's stock book of sentimental quotations and were
to any pretension without
good English or correct representation of Christian teaching.
To
save the cemetery from the "ridicule of posterity" he suggests that in the future Inscriptions should he culled from the Scriptures or ciso the local clergy should be consulted United Press.
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