The bright lights of the local Montmartre have spelled ruin for a Chinese youth of 18. who, according, to counsel defending him on a charge of forgery, took a liking to opium, wine, women, and song. He wi charged at the Criminal Session, with larceny of deposit receipts and forging the will of.his father, who atill is alive. He, also made a false declaration that his father had died. Both his father and counsel] for the defence pleaded for leniency, as the defendant is but 18 years of age and until recently was a model] son.
Hie was educated at Queen' College. When he entered his} father's wine-store as an assistant, hhis schoolmates enticed him to gay} restaurants and he indulged fast life, leading to the forging of his father's will. Chief Justice Sir Henry Gollan pointed out that the defendant might be imprisoned for life, but, on account of his age, would be sentenced to nine months: with hard labour.
The Bouncer Bounced Mrs. Tseng Shing, formerly preident' of Chu Chih-hsien Memorial School, Canton, has been obliged to] flee to Hongkong as a result of the opposition of a group of students. The students who dislike her charge} that she issu Red leader and "running dog" of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, whose secretary is her younger brother. When Wang Ching-we''s party were in power, she expelled several students who were in close sympathy with the—Kuangsi generals, such as Li Chichsin and Huang Shao-hsiung, but, after the: downfall of Wang and the "Iron away returned and in turn drove her out. The students charge that she more of an agitator than an educationalist, because she is deeply. involved in polities.
The school was founded in memory] of Chu Chih-hsien, the Kuomintang hero, who was killed while leading fan attack on the Bocca Tigris forts with a view to capturing Canton on.
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