CHINESE SLAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1922, Page 1

CHINESE SLAVE

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN’S K.Vi iv

SYDNEY, June 29. An extraordinary history attached to an Australian woman who has just arrived at E reman lie (AY.A.), a frail and battered wreck, from Singapoic. Twenty-four years ago she married a Chinese gardener at the Perth Registry Office. -She lived with him for some years and then went with him to China. For a while all went well, hut the Chinaman then said she was getting too old Ho married a young Chinese wife and made tho first wife his household drudge. Later, the husband died, and the "Australian woman lived with ins mother, who was 8$ years old. years passed well enough. Then the mother died and the uncle took charge of the property, including the A . tinlian woman. He sold her foi <>» dollars to a rich Chinese, who wanted to learn English. Then ynme the famine, and the woman being bought as a slave, was given hardy enough food to keep her alive and sl.c was sold a.rain for the second time. A leg injury due to a fall, brought her umlei the notice of a missionary, who £ mentor her meagre diet and l- lt ff Dalian Citizen, hearing ber ranged a passage for Fro., a He. local Immigration Uepartnunt charge of the woman, who will commodatod iu a ycligioiishome.