20 Girls to Wed Emigrant Settlers at Wuyuan Peiping, July 1.
The Chinese "picture. brides" selected among from the inmates of the local Chi Chi Yuan. or Door of Hope to marry twenty Chinese emigrant settlers at Wuyuan left for Paotouchen this morning, travelling on the same train with the members of the Northwest Investigation Expedition, There were touching scenes at the Chi Chi Yuan early this morning when the brides bade' farewell to their friends.. They were conveyed to the Chien Men Station in a municipal bus placed at their di posal by the Bureau of Social Welfare.
Despite the rain, a number of interested spectators, gathered at the station to see the brides off.—Mrs. Tuan Cheng-wu, wife of the Chairman of the Northwest Colonization Association, is in charge of the party.
The party is expected to arrive at Paotouchen to-morrow morning. Pending their marriage at a mass wedding on' July 15, the girls will be the guests of Mrs. Tuan at Potouchen. After marriage they will go to Wuyuan and assist their husbands in colonization work.—Reuter.
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