The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-03
aBROKEN LOSSONS0 OFCEHNATOWN
no CHARGE POLICE or AMERICA
WITH "IKLNKzNG@ AT OPPRESSORS
Slave Gil Arrested in
Flight, Plans to Expose
Methods Of Traffick-
ers in Virtue.
sypupLEY BURROWS.

IN. FL. Va. staff Correspondent)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8.-Will
Chan 500 Wing, 20-year Chinese
rl. PROVE to be the "Dred Scott" OF
Upon the court decision in her case
may depend war-a revolution
AGAINST vicious practice which some
III the American authorities have tried
in vain 10 stop, but at which others
have apparently winked, II not actual
81 conniyed.
For upwards Of fifty years the Chi
fese slaye+girl, brought to the United
States for immoral purposes, has
dimbly submitted to her fate, no doubt
thinking 1t was useless to struggle
AGAINST certain mighty "tongs" $50
1'otles) with their long arms and their
wealth ofspowers and influence.
But Chan 500 Ying is different.
Three years OF establishment in the
nnderworld Of San francisco and near
by cities, following her marriage" in
China and subsequent sale as a slave,
have So outraged her pride and sense
OF Justice that she is prepared to brave
the wrath of her countrymen and the
American police to secure revenge
and Indemnity for the wrongs she has
suifered
Taken from China bound steamer
AZ Honolulu on what she alleges to be
flimsy cabled warrant of arrest;
brought back to San Francisco by the
ohief of police Of the island metropo-
Us without even the Formally Of ex-
radifien-the slaYe-girl has turned
upon her enemies. From her retreat
in The Presbyterian Mission for Chi
uese Girls, whittier she was fleeing to
her home IN the Far East when taken
into custody, Chan 500 Wing is re-
ported to be planning suits for punt
tive damages and possible charges OF
false arrest and detention.
An exposure of alleged connivance
By the police with the Oriental traf-
fIckers in virtue is expected to play
part IN the SHOW down" promised
on behalf of Chan So Wing by Miss
DonaIdina Cameron, 1.-THE Little Moth
er OF Chinatown" who has been fight
ing the slave trade in San Francisco
for more than rs years.
Now that all the world is deter
mined to be set free from oppression,
Miss Cameron believes the time is ripe
for telling blow against the system
whereby innocent Chinese girls,
scarcely entering their teens, are i'm
ported into the United States for the
Orlentals on this side of the Pacific.
The story Of Chan 500 Wing, as re-
lated to me by Miss Cameron, is a
tragic tale of depraYity visited upon an
Innocent child.
Born Of a good middle class father
and q not-so- good mother in China,
Chan 500 Wing was sold by the latter
some three years ago to California
born Chinese youth who was returning
to the United States. Two months
after her arrival in San Francisco, she
tells Miss Cameron, Chan 500 Ying
was sold into slavery for $4,000.
For thirty months thereafter the
girl led an enforced life of shame, I'M
der the Watchful eye Of one or another
OF her keepers" who took her earn
ings and applied them against her pur-
chase price AS is customary, Chan
See Wing was sold and resold several
lines during those months of bond
age.
Eventually opportunity came to flee
to the Mission. In vain her last
keeper clamored for her return, or
that q the 3blood-money paid for her.
In matters Of this kind the MissioR,
during It's AZ years of existence, has
been consistently obdurate.
For SIX months Chan 500 Ying re-
NAMED in the Mission. Then Miss