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INFANT MARRIAGE
CUSTOMS.
DISCUSSED AT KOWLOON POLICE COURT,
"GIRL WHO RAN AWAY.
Marrying of an infant girl is quite a common thing in China, particularly among the poorer
families. A woman giving birth to a girl is generally ready to give her away to a richer family to be brought up by them and eventually married to one of the sons.
Among the farmers and village people, this is often a paying pro- position to both parties. When a girl is four or five years old, her mother would give her away to be a Súm Po Chat (meaning, a little bride) to a family with a son about the age of the girl. This will rid the parents of the expenses of rearing the child, and the family who takes in the little bride would also beneft, as the Sum Po Chai i always made the drudge of the household. These poor little giris, deprived of their parents, are set to the rough work and looking after the babies. When they grow a little older they are sent to the field to plough and sow.
Then comes the marriage, and this very aften ends in misery to the girl. As children they probably played and roamed the fields to 'gether and were quite happy in each other's company. But when the girl become, old enough to think, she generally has few illusions about the man she is contracted to marry, The boy on the other band often thinks that a short journey from his
DYING CAPTAIN'S LAST VOYAGE.
SIR JAMES CHARLES, OF THE . " AQUITANIA.”
BROKEN HEARTED -AT LEAVING SHIP.
The “Daily Mail”"gives the fol- Towing account of the dramatie death of Sir James Charles, the veteran captain of the "quitania" almost immediately after he had completed his final voyage prior to retirement. Reference ko the pal. laat seaman's pathetic death was reported at the time by a "Reuter" telegram. The Daily Mail" cur respondent writes as follows on Sunday, July 15th-,
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Six days ago Sir James Charles. had navigated the quitania out of New York Harbour for the last time. He was bound for England, retirement,,and, as he told us,ja a garden."
During those six sunlit days the 1.500 passengers sa emotion and distress creep into peface that bad | been sphinx-like throughout the 197 Atlantic previous
crossings | which were part of Sir James's 50
years' work at seale
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{ RUGBY, August 7th. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales fanded in France to-day to visit the battlefields of the Great War in association with the 11,000 pilgrims who had already arrived from Eng-
laad.
Arriving at Boulogne, H.R.H was received at the quayside by Major Horten, the Mayor and a He was greeted with loud cheering, body of local British Legionmen.
which he smilingly acknowledged.
After lunching simply at the Station refreshmen: buffet with General Trotter, he proceeded by motor-car
to Sh Omar, the British General Headquarters, and Bethune.
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At Bethune, His Royal Highness again welcomed with the greatest cathusiasm, not only by the pilgrims but by the focal popula
the tion. In
Market Square, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, President of the British Legion, re- On the outward voyage everyone ceived the Prince on a dais which, peered up at him on the bridge bedecked with British and French with affection and regret. Every- Lflags, had been erected in front of one gave and gave again to enable the famous belfry of Bethune. him, when he turned and reached "Southampton for the last time to hand over a big sum to seamen's
charities.
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Unanswered question. Everyone wished to speak to him Always he had to answer the same questions,
Was it a wrench to leave the ship? He would look away as if he were peering through the haze of the horizon, and would avoid the question.
What would he do??
In answer to that he would soften and talk almost lovingly of "three acres and a little home." homestead would show damsels more
All the way across the ship's com- accomplished and better look at.piny hid from him a beautiful wal- But whatever personal feelings may nut bureau and chair, their pre- aums, and small, given with those words of affection that were the only ones ever used to describe him. The gift was made in New York Harbour last Sundaye...
As the Prince reached the square, he was received with a fanfare of His Royal Highness trumpets. thanked the Reception Committee of the Departments of Somme and which they had made for the recep- Pas de Calais for the arrangements tion of the British pilgrims.
where he will stay for the nigh
The Prince then went on to Lille, He proceeds to-morrow to Ypres to attend the great memorial service at the Menin Gate,
sft. sattee of the chart room, where work surrounded him, in preference to the quiet and comfort of his own bed...
Collapse In Chart Boom. Ten minutes after he had retired insistence
be the marriage will go through sent to him, bought out of large his bell rang with an
just the same, for the boy has a filini duty to perform and it is modified by knowing that at any time he can take a concubine of his own choice. As might be expected the boy frequently leaves home, never to return again, but his wife remains with his mother to con- tinne as an unpaid servant unless she has enough enterprise to leave and fend for herself...
Married At the Age Of Six.
They tugged their present into a dining-room, and waited there as excited as school: children, while Sir James was being asked down from above..
that made two officers rush in, con- vinced that something was amiss. They found him in a state of col- lapse, suffering great pain, and with traces of blood that told of internal hemorrhage.
För seven hours the great ship moved slowly towards Southamp ton, her warning siren being used as rarely and sparingly as possible. Commodore's Emotion.
All the time' Dr. Jones and his as- They did not tire to be asked sistant surgeon, Dr. R. L. Lancas- to cheer him when he walked in, ter, who recently successfully carri Such & case was heard in the bronzed, tall, burly, firm-jawed, ed out an operation for peritonitis Kowloon
imperturbable. You | in a small ship with primitive ap- Magistracy
yesterday and—still when two Chinese women were could have heard them far away pliances, were fighting for the cap- charged before Mr. W. Schofield over the New York dockside. with harbouring and receiving a But when he told them that he girl of 17 years of age. Another understood them, and that now be
sailor, lived their lives, woman was also charged with aiding was going into a little house and and abetting the other two defen- dants. The girl was described as
garden that would have to be a unmarried.
little bigger than be had intended to match such a beautiful present, one saw one crack in the rock, one little flutter of muscles in the face,
Mr. Hin Shing Lo defended and Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs pro
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A man who described himself as the father-in-law of the_girl · was the complainant. Mr. Hin Shing Lo then asked the Court as to how the girl could have a father-in-law and yet he described as unmarried. It was then stated that the girl was given away in marriage to com- plainant'e son when she was 6, bit the actual ceremony had not been performed.
Mr. Hin Shing Lo asked for the discharge of the defendants on the ground that if the girl was given in marriage at the age of six, she should have been married to com- plainant's son by now. It was not the duty of the father-in-law to come to Court as the complainant. It was the husband's duty and it he had not taken upon Himself that duty, he had no right to the girl.
After further arguments, his Worship agreed with Mr. Lo sad discharged, the defendants. Adjournment so that he could obtain Mr. Williama asked for a week's legal advice from, the Attorney General. This was objected to and the defendants were discharged..
"PEI HUA!!!
NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF OHINA
NANKING, July 28th. In accordance with the educa- tional policy decided at the National Educational Conference, the National University Council, in an order to all educational or gara throughout the country, instructs the enforcement of the following measures for the promo tion of Pei-hua" as the national written and spoken language:
-That "Pei-hus" be used in all primary schools for teaching.
2.That" Wen-libe not re quired in entrance examinations of lower middle schools,""
3.That all educational institu- tione encourage the use of "Pei- hua,"
4That inspection of primary schools be made by the proper at thorities at regular intervals as to prevent the use of textbooks writ ten in "Wen-lito Min.
that could not be restrained.
tain's life.
The passengers, the majority of everyone in uniform with requests whom were Americana, bombarded
for news Some made it known that if money could save him there, was no amount that would not be forthcoming.
All the way to Southampton Sir James was treated with morphic to ease his pain. On the quay an am- bulance was waiting. As soon as a gangway could be lowered Lady had been warned, Charles, who came aboard and went to his side. No Word For Wife.
They piped him the Commodore's Salute for the last time, and stood to rigid attention to honour him, and gave him honours in music and in the halting words of sailormen.
He told them again that the little. But he was semi-conscious and home and garden would have to be could neither speak to nor recog- near Southampton, so that he could aise her. sea them again and again. He said that the desk would always remind him of the Aquitania and her won- derful company.
Smile For His Men,
It was his own happy thought to draw a chair to the desk and sit at it, so that all his men could le by and see him as he would be in his little home. As they walked by he smiled up at them, and as the last man passed one felt that one had seen one more break in the
rock.
It was noticed, during the return voyage that he was spending more time than ever on the bridge. He them what place they would recom: would speak to passengers, ask mead for a small English home, But always he was soon back at his
work
His willing navigating officers sought a greater share of his task, but failed to move him, and at last, two days before the ship reached Cherbourg, the ship's surgeon, Dr. B. Sydney Jones told him that he must take his proper rest.
Down a covered gangway mem- bers of his crew bore him into the ambulance, and Lady Charles went with him to a nursing home only a few doors from their Southamp ton home in Winn-road. Passen- gera waiting for the Customs ex- amination were in tears as they saw him go.
A quarter of an hour later, while passengers were still walking down the gangways, we saw the Commo dore's flag Butter slowly to half mast. Within a few minutes a every ship within sight, similar tribute had been paid by
The thousand men who make up should already have dispersed, the crew of the ship, many of whom stayed behind and spoke quietly to gether of him as men speak of their
dearest friends.
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According to the announcement, the Anglo-Persian Company's in- terest has been balved.
SIR AUSTEN'S ILLNESS.
COURTNEY'S MACHINE
SALVAGED.
ITALIAN STEAMER'S FIND.
[BEUTZA'S AMERICAN SERVICE
NEW YORK, August 7th. A wireless message from the Italian steamer Falprati on its way from Algeria to Nova Scotia, 17- nounced that the vessel has picked up Captain Courtney's Dornier- Napier #ying-bost, which was aban- doned in the Atlantic last week.
BATHERS PARADISE.
~900-BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE TAKEN FROM RIVER.
COLOGNE.
Amazing scenes were witnessed at Coblenz, below the confluence of the Main and the Rhine.
Bathers who had been diving found dozens of bottles of cham- pagne lying on the river bed. The news soon spread, and altogether 300 bottles were brought to the sur- face by enthusastic bathers.
LORD CUSHENDUN'S TEMPORARY POST. Commodore Sir James T. W. Charles who would have been 83
(BRITISH WINKLESS SERVICE] next month, was at, sea. 48 years, 33 of which were spent in the ser-
Ruszy, August 7th.. vice of the Cunard Company. His
It is officially announced that the last was his 728th Atlantic voyage King has approved the appointment
His first voyage was in a sailing ship, and he served in sailing ships of Lord Cushendun as acting Bocre for seven years. His first Cunard tary of State for Foreign Affairs in the temporary absence of Bir command was the -Aleppo, in 1904. He commanded in turn ten Cunar Austen Chamberlain, who, as the ders, including the Luritania, and result of his result illness, has been in 1914 was appointed to the ordered, a complete rest before re-
Bagger suming his official duties.. Mauretania.
Lord Cushendun will replace Siro Austen Chamberlain na chief. Brit tish representative at meetings of the Assembly of the Council of the Assembly of the Council of the League of Nations..
On Bridge To The End, In those last two days he was on the bridge more than ever. The night before Cherbourg was reach- ed a determined effort was made to persuade him to allow his staff captain, Captain G. R. Dolphin, to navigate the vessel into harbour.
But Sir James was on the bridge at the Casquets. He was there when midnight came and the lights of the mainland were twinkling,
His were the orders that slowed the Aquitania from her high-seas speed to the swanlike glide, with For his war service in command which she entered the harbour, that of troop and hospital ships he re- set the great propellers into reverse ceived a knighthood. During 1918, and brought her to a standstill, in nine voyages in the Aquitania, that set the anchor roaring over; he transported 60,000 United States board to bring his last Atlantic troops. crossing to an end.
He accomplished s He watched the Channel pilot feat in 1919 when he took the who was to take the Aquitania into Aquilanta out of decic at Bouth- Southampton come aboard. When ampton without tugs, an achieve he sought rest at last he chose the ment which local experts declared
(Continued on next Column), to be impossible
remarkable
Lord Cushendun, who before his elevation to the Pedrage was Mr Rooald McNeill was formerly Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and has recently represented Bri- tain at the League of Nations.
Although the police, who hurried to the scene, tried to confiscate ths, booty, they were powerless to do against the crowds that had as- sembled
a half an hour the river bank was littered with drunken people
It is believed that the champagne was smuggled into Coblenz from France Coblenz, is in French o oupied territory and subsequently thrown into the Rhine to avoid confiscation by the Erthange.
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