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New York, Oct, 10, A miniature Chinese war, starting the columns of two rival Chinese newspapers, embracing a dattleficld in which one editor's office was wrecked, and the subsequent arrest and heating of the other editor's wife, held the interest of New York's Chinatown recently, Events leading up to the "was of the editors" date back to the lage of Chen Po and Li Eh Ming. in Paris last November, following a romance running back to childhood in China and twee years of companionship at the Uni-Versity of Sorbonne, France, The first of this year Chen Po. and his bride came to New York he took over control of Chinese Nationalist Daily News, Within a few months Chen Po began having trouble with a rival paper,."The Chinese Journal," edited by Thomas P. Chan, began charging in of the "Daily Ne officially represents the Nationalist party in New York, that the other newspaper was imbued: with munistic teachings and lism Tike the New York led to editorial charges and counter-charges in each paper and seems that. the "Journal" once took occasion to call Mrs, Chen a A Stab That Got Home Then came a Communistic meot~ ing outside the Chinese Consulate, broken up by the followers of the for the "Journal" "leaders of the tion with him, whereas Me, Shearer|Communistic mob." Naturally, their employment] blood boiled at this insult to. directly instigated by Mx, their Nationalistic principles, More: trouble followed.
One evening Mr. Chan was pre paring the midweek issue of his trieweekly "Journal." While and his stof? were at work, he party of eight men, led by Mes. Chen, marched into the editorial Chan says the intruders seized and roughly handled hin, his desks were overturned, papers' scattered. thrown upon the wax so great that h was unable to get cut that issue of his paper, he claimed, The next development was the arrest of dits, Chen on a warrant barging felonious assault upon the person of Mr, Chan, Mrs. Chen, who is 21 and a student ut Columbia University, denied that she was a member of the saiding party when arraigned Lefore the magistrate. nificance of the Insult However, Chen's wife did admit going to Chan's office a few days before the alleged raid to protest: against the publica article in which she "dew wife." She explained the dis-16 of the epithet as follows:
"Dew only exists in carly, morn= ing, When the sun comes out it evaporates and vanishes. Dew, therefore, in Chinese common sense, ness and temporariness. nese slang as well as literature, all a woman a dew wife means she is a woman who became one's wife just temporarily."
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