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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927.

PECULIAR VISIT BY NIGHT

TEAR DOWN THE PURDAH.

OVER TWENTY YEARS' | GEN, YANG:SEN'S HOME

RAIDED. SERVICE.

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CONSTABLE SHOOTS FLEEING

INTRUDER.

A shopkeeper and his wife, residing at No. 184 Lai Chi Kok Road, underwent a peculiar ex perience last night.

CHASTITY NOT A HOT HOUSE MARITIME CUSTOMS OFFICER

GROWTH.

RETIRING.

The Chinese Maritime Customs

In the first issue of "India To- day the bulletin of the Indian service has said farewell to an Information Centre (7, Tavis-other of its veterans in the person tock Place, London, S. W. 1), a of Sergt. C. Chogwidden, of the From a report made by the striking statement on women's con- tiver Police, who has retired on shopkeeper to the police, it wouldditions in India is quoted from a pension after 21 years' duty on the as recent article, "Teur down the Pur- river, says a Shanghai paper. seem that he went to bed

The follow Prior to joining the River Police, usual, having previously locked up dah," by Mr. Gandhi.

Sergt. Chegwidden served in the his shop. After he had been a ing aro extracts

Royal Navy and took part in the couple of hours in bed, he was

Hoer War, for which he holds the awakened by a man who was

the Queen's medal. throttling him. The shopkeeper found difficulty in shouting, and he looked round to see what was happening to his wife, and found that she was being subjected to, similar treatment by another man

Whenover I have gone to Bengal, Bihar, or the United Provinces I have observed the Purdah aystem more strictly followed than in any other provinces.

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"A' SEARCH FOR STOLEŃ GOODS.

The Shanghai house" of General Yang Sen, of Waphslen notoriety, was raided and searched, by the S. M. Police on Thursday night, The General's house is situated at 22, Medhurst Road, in the International Settlement, and was raided in ac cordance with a warrant issued by the Provisional Court.

It appears that Mr. Elly Widler, a Swiss subject, alleges that in the year 1924, General Yang Sen rob- Only a year after joining the bed him of some property and chat- River Folice, Sergt. Chegwidden tels to the $100,000, and with a became involved in a tussle with a view to ascertaining whether any Addressing a meeting at Darb-notorious gang of salt smugglers. of this property was stored in the hanga I found in front of me men, Though armed, he would not fire house occupied by the general's When the grip on his throat but behind me and behind the screen but went for the gang alone and wives, Mr. Wilder applied to his As a conse: Consulate for a warrant to search was slightly relaxed, and he was were women of whose presence I wth his bare fiats." able to utter a few words, he knew nothing till my attention was quence he was overpowered and the premises, and they in turn ap- severely beaten with bamboos, sus-plied to the Provisional Court and asked the intruders if they want-drawn to it.

taining injuries which left him

a, search warrant was granted. ed money, but the men did not

The function was in connexion permanently lame. Despite this reply, and once again began to with the laying of the foundation- handicap, he returned to duty and tighten their grip.

carried on for 20 years. Recently, through his lameness becoming worse, he was compelled to retire, so he leaves the service on pension. Last Saturday, in the Customs Club, in the presence of a number of his comrades of all branches of the service, Supt. W. G. Woodfield, of the River Police, presented Mr. Chegwidden with a handsome case of pines, mentioning the universal popularity enjoyed by the recipient as

a consequence of his genial manner, his bluff honesty

and hearty good nature and the con- scientious attention he gave to all his duties.

Eventually, however, both the shopkeeper and his wife managed

stone of an orphanage, but I was called upon to address the ladies behind the Pürdah. The sight of the screen behind which my audi-

to shout "save life." Their criesence, whose number I did not know, were heard by a Chinese con were seated made me sad. stable, who blew his whistle, which resulted in another gon-

the stable coming on The two constables then guarded the front and back entrances of

the shop.

It pained and humiliated me deep-

I thought of the scene. ly.

wrong being done by me to the women of India...I am quite aware of the very high culture of these thou- sands of sisters whom I get the privilege of addressing, and I know that they are capable of rising to the same height as men; I know, too, that they do have occasions on which they can get out of Purdah.

Meanwhile the cries ceased, and a man emerged from the back exit of the shop. The constable who was on guard at the back shouted to the man to stop, but he ignored the order. Seeing that the man might eventually escape, the con- stable drew his revolver and fired a shot which struck the man, and he was seized by the policeman. A search in the shop later re- vealed the second man hiding in a cockleft. He

taken Was custody.

Must Grow from Within.

But this occasional freedom is not to be put down to the credit of the educated classes....

Chastity is not a hot-house. growth. It cannot be superimpos- into 1 ed. It cannot be protected by the

surrounding wall of the Purdak.

The wife of the shopkeeper was stabbed, though it was not quite clear by which the two men. She was later taken to the Kowloon Hospital, as was the man who was shot by the constable.

S. P. C. A. WORK.

LAST MONTH'S ACTIVITY.

:

The report on the combined work last month of the Inspectors employed by the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals shows a record of much activity at the marketa, landing stages, and so forth.-

of

poultry and nearly 13,500 pigs in

transit.

Numerous visits were paid, as

It must grow from within and to

CHINESE SERVANTS IN SIAM.

RUMOURS OF A STRIKE.

Bangkok, August 30. We are being entertained to a be worth anything it must be cal-considerable amount of rumour able of, withstanding every in- these days. I have mentioned sought temptation. defant.

It must be

about the rumour that the domestic servants are to go on strike within

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In accordance with telephonic in- formation, that the gaid was to be carried out, a representative of the North-China Daily News journey- ed to the house of the complainant in the evening and later was taken by the complainant in his motor car to the Bubbling Well Police Sta- tlon where Det. Sub. Inspr. C. B. 10 Separate. Henry and an assistant proccoded 11 Song. to the general's house. On produc-12 Like a goat. tion of the warrant, admittance 13 Round bodies. was easily gained by the police and 15 Reposes.

Exclamation of distress. accompanied by Mr. Widler, a thorough search, lasting over two 19 Used in roofing.

31 Summon hours, was carried out on the pre 23 Answer in the affirmative.

25 Guide. mises. None of Mr. Wilder's pro- perty was found and no evidence 27 Small chest. regarding the appropriation of the 28 Emulation. complainant's property was un 29 Overact. earthed. It is understood that the 81 Next before the present. gencral's wives denied all know- 93 Coxcomb. ledge of the alleged misappropria 35 Acorns, tion by their husband and in tears 38 Go'quickly. bowed the police and the complain- ant out of the house, after protracted search.

THE QUEEN'S.

the next few days. It still per- A GLORIA SWANSON PICTURE.. sista, although the leading Chin-

It must be a very poor thing that cannot stand the gaze of men.

Men, to he men, must be able to trust their women-folk, ever as there ridicule the idea. latter are compelled to trust them... By seeking to-day to, in- terfere with the free growth of the womanhood of India we are inter- fering with the growth of free and independent-spirited men.

But I do not think it can he denied that there has been an at- tempt to interfere with the ser- vanta, who may yet be compelled to come out, although ninety per cent. of them cannot possibly favour the idea.

and what we are doing to the un- What we are doing to our women

They know that they are a great touchables refalls upon our heads deal more comfortable and secure with force a thousand times mulhere than they would be in China, and accordingly they have little or no desire to return to their native land.

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A Weakness.

Hindu decline.

On a former occasion, many

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In "A Society Scandal," the cur- rent feature at the Queen's a happy choice of what is popularly understood as "type" was made by the producer in casting Gloria Swanson for the role portraying the much-maligned Society woman. Incidentally, it furnishes a vehicle for the display of a number of beautiful dresses, and... Gloria Swanson wears, all these becom MRS. J. CRAWFORD. ingly, as befitting her reputation of being the screen's most stylishly dressed star

the other hand, if they do

The story has to do with a Over 2,000 crates of poultry It partly accounts for our own strike, it is just possible that the were, under observation, and near-

Government will take measures to Society scandal, which is not so ly 3,000 pigs in the course of weakness, indecision, narrowness, and helplessness. Let us then tear

see that they are sent there, for at much a scandal as the mis-inter- a compromising" transpart were examined. In the

well known case of imports, the work done down the Purdah with one mighty time auch as this Siam has no petration of

Society hostess finds herself with involved observation and examina-

Ian of opinion that the Purdah desire to have a number of unem position in which a tion of abuut 3,600 crates

a suave anl polished ne'er-do-well. in India is a recent institution and ployed Chinese on her hands. was adopted during the period of years ago, she called out the The situation is developed into a In the age when proud Draupadi military, and very soon settled the surprising angle when the pro- But her most dramatic terms the "sins of usual, to places where livestock is and spotless Sita lived there could matter. She has no wish to re-secuting attorney. denounces in the

peat the experience! kept or sold, and a number of be no Purdah. Gargi could not police are ready, and the servants society" only to suecumb later to prosecutions were brought where have held ber discourses from be-themselves know that if anything | the charms of the very woman

hind the Purdah.

Press hercin ig about. The... Nor is the Furdah universal in does happen, they will be put out whose divorce he has thus brought

of the country. India. It is unknown in the Dec-

The fact would seem to be that shown to be a remorseless instru- can, Gujarat, and the Punjab; it is

a few agitators are at work, and if ment of publieity, but all ende unknown armong the peasantry, and the secret societies support them happily, as it should. one does not hear of any untoward the rank and file may be compell- consequences of the comparative led to strike. But that is highly freedom which women in these pro-improbable.-Correspondent vinces and among peasantry enjoy. Straits Times.

necessary.

Twenty-four dogs were admitted to the home during the month, and 13 were destroyed in the same period.

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Nor will it be just to say that the women or men in other parts of the world are less moral because of the absence of the Pardah system.

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