QUEEN OF CHINATOWN

Evening Star, Issue 20033, 26 November 1928, Page 8

QUEEN OF CHINATOWN

W,OMAN'S HATRED Of HER RACE A TRAGIC LIFE STORY 'Working behind tho .scones of London's underworld, is :i woman, known at the “White Queen of Chinatown” and the “Princess of Pennyfiekls.” Pfer real identity is a mystery, but she is known to bo the widow of a Chinese. She is the brains of the underworld, and lias always by her side a lawyer ready to defend any yellow man who has offended the law. Her husband left her a considerable sum of money, and this she devotes to helping Chinese. Her reason for defending the yellow against the white man is simply She hates the English, although she is English-born. Most of her time is spent in the east end—but she is a well-known figure in west end night clubs. FRIENDLESS ORPHAN. Occasionally she visits a Chinese restaurant in Limehonse, and it is from an habitue of this_ restaurant that the ‘ Sunday Chronicle ’ learned her story. “Wo ealL her the queen,” lie said. “ Sho canio to Chinatown several years ago. Sho drifted here after having a little trouble with the police.” The life story of this woman is tragic. Her mother died when she was eight. Her father she never knew. Her mother met her dcatli as the result of a fight with a man. She was left an orphan in the oast end of London. A friend of lier mother found her work in a Chinese laundry,

where she toiled from morning till night. At fifteen she found a job as waitress in a fifth-rate eating house. “ ONLY ROTTENNESS.” There she was told she must get a uniform and apron. She had only threepence—and no friends. Sho went out in the evening and spoke to somebody. . . . He happened to be a police officer in plain clothes. The next day sho found herself in prison. “ I longed to bo among white people,” she has often said. “ But I received nothing but rottenness at their hands.’’ Sho came out of prison with her heart full of black hatred. Limehouso beckoned to her, and she answered.