Two Chinese, who had been engaged for fifty years, have just got married in Chang-hsiang, China. Chen Min-pa, aged eighteen, asked Miss Nieh, aged eleven, to marry him. But'after they had plighted their troth her fiance had a fight with his father and ran away to become a soldier. For fifty years he did not return, and though friends besought Miss Nieh to forget him, she remained faithful to his memory, hoping that one day he would return. Now, a high officer in the Kiangsi army, he has returned and married her.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 17
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