INTER-RACIAL MARRIAGES
UNHAPPY ENGLISHWOMEN IN CHINA.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. A report has been received by bis Exoellenoy the Governor from the Governor of Hongkong regarding the evils of European and Chinese marriages. The writer transmits particulars of (£ses of unhappy mixed marriages wbioh have come under the notice of the Hongkong Benevolent Society. Two of the oases only were from New Zealand, but there was information that other cases of mixed marriages wose productive of groat misery that had originated there. 11 It is difficult to conceive,” he says, «< how an Englishwoman can live happily In the uncongenial surroundings presented by village life in the interior of China. When it is borne in mind that polygamy is reoogoised by the laws of China, it is easy to imagine that the position of an English wife would, in the vast majority of oases, become unsupportable.” The writer gives a number of oases Whioh make paintul reading. They reveel great suffering and misery amongst women who have gone to China with Chinese husbands.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1598, 10 November 1905, Page 3
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