The Archive · 1938

Chinese Women Serve

In Police Force

54 Employed by the Local Administration Confucius said woman's place is in the kitchen, but 54 courageous Chi nese women of Greater Shanghai will have no truck with such outmoded philosophy.

Following the example of their sisters in the big cities of western lands, the valiant 54 have emerged from the kitchen and found their place in a more difficult but more exciting sphere—the police force.

The policewoman serving with the Police Bureau of the Greater Shanghai Municipal Administration, the Nippo" said yesterday, are distributed as follows: four are detectives, four are guards in the Police Bureau Jail, fourteen are stationed in Pootung, two in Yangssu, one in Nantao, eight in Chapei, six in Kaochiao and fifteen in West Shanghai,

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

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