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ABREAST OF Suicide WORLD AFFAIRS

way re-

Developments

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1938.

In New Life THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING

COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

Movement

Following a recent conférence convened by Madame Chiang Kai-

The powerful Chinese Govern- SEEMED VERY HAPPY❘ment radio station at Chenju.

AND CONTENTED. "near Shanghai, --which The story of the death of aị moved just before it came under shek and attended by fifty Chinese young mui-tsai. Danied Khoo Japanese naval gunfire last year, women leaders, the women's wörk Liang-hin, who was found to have has been set up outside Chenztu. being rapidly expanded to cope of the New Life Movement is committed slaide by taking

capital of Szechuan. It is now eaustle soda, was unfolded in the

with the exigencies of wartime. Cordner's court in Singapore re-functioning as usual with an ad-

A vigorous women's industrial cently.

ditional international Broadcast- Mr. Khoo Heng-pho, of No. 61. ing service under the direction of under the leadership of Miss Yu department being organizęd Tanjong Rhu when giving "evi-

Ching-tang, an education expert.

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dence said that the deceased had the Central News Agency, which been brought to him by a Canton-maintains branches in all cities of Experts have already outlined the ese u The child was only 10 to the south-west. 11 years old then She was 17 when she died.

plan whereby thousands of village women, far in the interior. will Chinese in the south-west pro-be supplied with simple weaving

Mr. Khoo said that the girl had vinces, like those in other parts machines. seemed very happy in her occupa-of China not occupied by the

Should communications. with tion She had been employed to enemy, are well-informed daily of the outside world become difficult world affairs through the connec assist his wife who ran the house.

for the rural dwellers they will tions of the Central News Agency. be able to produce cloth in rea- The deceased had never com-

a Chinese

Preference concern maintaining | sonable quantities. plained of being miserable, and

close relations with" Mr. Khoo was at a loss to under-Havas, Transocean, United Press. they may readily become estab- Reuter's, will be given to refugees so that stand the reason for her action.

and other international news lished in the new areas to which

distributing or- they have fled.

Her parents were unknown. The

child. Mr. Khoo said, had always gathering and been treated well. She did the ganizations.

The earnings of these tens of Washing for his wife and served All Chungking, Chengtu, and thousands of women in the vil- drinks and food at times. Other other south-west daily newspapers lages will make it possible for malds were employed for the heavy carry reports from these world-them, Madame Chiang says, to

wide news agencies. through ex- help in wartime production. change release of news.

All this work will be carried ou by a skeleton staff of women, who, because many of them are volunteers, will reduce the office overhead to a minimum and thrus

labour.

ALWAYS BEEN. HAPPY Mrs. Khoo Heng-pho said that. The few important, towns in Khoo Liang-hin had always been Szechuan still not well supplied happy. It was true that the de- with newspapers, have their own ceased' had been in the possession means of keeping their citizens of caustic soda which had been informed of the latest news. In make it possible for a larger per left over from Chinese New Year. Hsintu, à district northeast of centage of the earnings to go to

Witness said that on the evening Chengtu. for instance, an officer the workers.

of May 10, she and her husband of the district government notes An enlarged committee of some heard groans. On investigating all important news released by forty women, resident in various. they found the girl lying on the the provincial broadcasting ata provinces. Is already co-operating floor, obviously in great agony and tion.

with Madame Chiang Kai-shek in unable to speak. Mr. Khoo ad-

Through the network of tele-making this and other under- ministered Chinese medicines in an phones covering every town and takings of the New Life Move- effort to restore her, 'at. the same village, some one at each local ment. time sending for a doctor.

zones

exchange has the duty of relaying The National Women's Relief. In the meantime, both Mr. Khoo the messages to the people. The which has been caring for suffer- and his wife tended the suffering public of the district receives its ing humanity in the war girl. Her lips, were swollen and daily детя

other than those and behind the lines, is perhaps occasionally blood issued from her furnished by newspapers from the the best known of all the war- mouth. This was wiped away with larger cities, in the form of wall-time activities of the women's a towel. Mr. Khoo did not notice newspapers, or bulletins, poste section of the New Life Move, any cup nearby, and neither did at public places, mostly outsidement, and the more recently or-" his wife. It was his young son who public parks, school grounds, city ganized orphanages for children found the cup which contained a gates.

are a very good second. : strong solution of caustic soda. According to

It is significant that all the This was removed and, together timate, 40 per cent of the people women of China are now looking with a towel which had been used read these bulletins. Keeping the to Madaine Chiang Kai-shek for to wipe the lips of the deceased, public Informed of current events leadership in this immense task sent to the General Hospital. The inside and outside China is now and. at the same time, enabling arrival of the doctor was not. long considered one of the. most in-thousands of refugee families to delayed and he immediately re-portant items of the mass educa- re-establish themselves beyond cognised the symptoms of polson-tion programme-(China In the range of the invaders' bombs

and artillery.--(C.L.C.)

ing.

EMPLOYERS, NOT BLAMED

An ambulance was sent for and Khoo Liang-hin was removed to hospital. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Khoo saw the deceased again ex- cept when they went to identify the body at the mortuary.

Two servants of Mr. Khoo wher cross-examined sald that they knew the dead girl. She had al- ways seemed happy until about three weeks before her death. She fcrmed the habit of taking her food away to some secluded place to eat it, and would not answer when asked to explain her conduct. On one occasion she had been dis- covered applying lighted matches to her clothing.

A special jury returned a verdict

of suicide, finding nothing against | the treatment the deceased had received from her employers.

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JUDGE DEFINES ́ ́DESERTION”

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new

grounds for divorce, was made by Mr. Justice Goddard at Newcastle Assizes recently.

"People who have been living apart for a long time," he said. "are now rushing to the courts for divorce on grounds of deser tion/

"Desertion da 2 matrimonial offence, and if there is desertion there must have been- wrongful desertion on the part of either husband or wife. That is with- drawing cohabitation without the consent of the other..

"If a man and his wife quarrel. the wife takes herself off. and good riddance, that is not de sertion."

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