A CHINAMAN’S OATH
HTS SOUL AY AS TOUG H EPISODE IX COURT (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) L Lverpool, Apr i 1 7. A Chinese giving evidence in a local court concluded with, tpc Chinese oath : “If I do not speak the truth, may my soul ho dashed into a thousand. pieces, even .as this saucer.’ Simultaneously lie throw the saucer to the floor, but it rebounded intact. Two further attempts failed. Then the witness knelt and hammered if on the floor till he succeeded in reducing it to chips.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 8
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