The Archive · 1921

A Chinese Breach of Promise Case

Prospective Groom's Charges

Two Chinese of the modern school are parties to an interesting action which is proceeding in the Mixed Court, partly heard and now adjourned for further hearing. The plaintiff is a mining engineer named Song Chang-koh, and the defendant a highly educated young lady of 24, Miss Dun Jui-chi. She is a school teacher by profession, having graduated in China and afterwards continued her education in Scotland and at the London School of Economics, where she studied International Law and Political Science.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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