50,000 Women in Peking Under Displeasure NOON, SRBCIAL senvieH
Peking, Dee. 6, The "Customs-Correction Corps'" of the local bureau of social welfare announces that 50,357 Chinese women have been discovered with bound feet in the former capital, and that they have been instructed to unbind their feet at once, A short period of grace is permitted the women to unbind their feet, and after the expiration of the time fixed, the corps statues that a thorough check-up will be made, and these who have not complied will be Representatives-of the corps have been stationed at all the city gates {in Peking to watch for peasants entering the city with hound fect or men with queues, These officials are farmed with large scissors, and have been instructed to, snip off the queues of conservative farmers Who Persist in wearing the ancient hir~ sure adornment, They are also instructed to warn Peasant women entering the elt that they will not be permitted to eave unt they have unbound their The Bureau states that the eameign has continued for two years Against bound feet and queues, and that the time has come to. stamp ut this practice, regarded as perni= cious, without further delay—United Press,
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