The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-18
Twelve Angry Chinese Women
Beat an Editor and Send
Him to Hospital.
CHINATOWN MUCH AGITATED
Charges of Misuse OF Public
Funds Fly Back and Forth
and End in FraCaS.

As the result of an editorial contro.
versy between Editor Chung Yau Hung
and Editor Ung En- Shung which has
been going on for some months and has
aroused strong partisanship in China
town, twelve infuriated Chinese women,
armed with umbrellas, stormed the of.
fee of the Wah Hing Bo on Smith
street Wednesday morning and gave
Chung Yau Hung thorough and last.
ing drubbing, while large throng
stood outside on the pavement and
listened with satisfaction to the din
which emanated from the editorial
sanctum.
The twelve women, who belong to
the Tong Mung Hui, a suffragette
organization which has adopted En-
glish methods, fell upon the unhappy
scribe at an hour when all of his en-
ployes except the two apprentices were
out of the building. They tore off his
shirt and collar, gave him general
beating with their umbrellas over the
head and shoulders and then settled
down to it systematically. While one
detachment held him outstretched upon
the floor by his legs and arms the
others broke their umbrellas upon him
and settled down to steady fist work.
The helpless Chung tried to crawl I'M
der a table, but was pulled forth and
given a second beating. Then they
propped him up in chair and forced
him to write an apology for matters
Ia, nh fhatr oil hol sr
his paper and marched triumphantly
down to the sidewalk with the manu-.
script. There a policeman awaited
them, but the twelve gleeful wahines
did all the talking and when Chung
limped upon the scene, he was unable
to give his version because he does not
speak English. A little later in the
day he was conveyed to a hospital for
treatment, where his numerous wounds
and bruises were dressed.
Among the extremely progressive
women who made the attack, according
70 the victim, were Mrs. Lum Zip, Mrs.
Wong Hon Fee, Mrs. Choy Sing, the
mother of Loo Tow, the mother of Wong
Koon Khan and the mother of Chock
Kun Sing.
Appeal to Advertiser
The evening of the same day when
Editor Chung was nursing his injuries
and wondering what action he could
take to bring the perpetrators of the
outrage to Justice, prominent Chinese
called upon him and persuaded him
that it would be best to forget the
whole affair and take no action what
ever. Chinatown, however, was aroused
and the friends of the Wah Hing Bo
indted the following eloquent plea to
| The Advertiser, which appears here
4 verbatim:
/ To the Editor of Advertiser:
Dear Sir:-This neaw / send to you
and wish you through in your value
able paper to show it to the White
( Ladies and let them see that the Amer
| leans have such laws or not, as ouI
Chinese is Republic Government like
! Americans, and those unwise Chinese
women learned little Foreign Laws il
/ this Islands, as women ought to be re
spected, and they think that they have
right run to man s Office or house
to strike him with their umbrellas
when he says or write little thing dis
/ pieaseu OF IHeu.
On the Wednesday about $3.50 a. m
several law class Chinese women rul
to a Chinese Paper (Wha Hing Po) us
their umbrellas to strike the Chimes
Editor, and now he is lied in the hos
pital can not resume his duty.
Knew Not His Rights.
Editor Chung Yau Hung speaks sol
rowfully of the occasion, sometime
with Il shadow of smile which prove
that even he sees some humor in tn
episode. He explains that he has onl
/, been on Hawaiian soil little NOR
than year and knows nothing of tn
laws or the rights of defense.
China, it seems, n man has no right
/, fight with any woman but his wife, $
+ while any other editor would hay
hurled the pantalooned viXens dow
. stairs, Editor Chung took his drubbin
e without striking blow.
4 Counter Charges.
The whole affair grew out of
I counter accusation. In the first pla
, the Chee You Bo accused Ho Fon
misappropriation of Chinese RI
l Cross money. Ho Fon has an intere
y :, in the Wah Hing Bo, so Editor Chul
y promptly came back with accusatio
u involving friends of the Chee You
, in the misappropriatiOn of $500 at t
!; time 5000 was raised for Chine
= parade. Mrs. Wong Hon Fee, wife
=, the editor of the Chez You Bo, to-
a the matter to heart and while Assista
"A Editor Ung En- Shung was flinging i
az in defense of his paper and his frien
n. she was marshaling the forces of I
or Tong Mung Hui for the onslaught up
re- the helpless editor of the OPPOSITE
On paper.
One consolation Editor Chung ha;
or he did not sign his name to that fore
apology, for the arrival of the poll
Mt man below stairs so agitated the
nd tacking force that it danced off W
of the paper before the signature '
n affixed, Discovering their oversighf
little litter in the day they went to
Fon for his signature, but got sn
satisfaction from him,