JOURNALISTS SLAPPED
AFFRONT TO MAGISTRATE LONDON, September 27. Three Chinese newspapermen received ten slaps apiece from the magistrate at Pingyuen, Hopei, when they turned up to interview him clad in shorts, open-collar shirts and —crowning indignity—wearing spectacles.
They, as news hunters of the “Walk-ing-Surveying Corps,” had gone to interview the magistrate in the course of a tour through Hopei. Instead of the cordial reception they had anticipated, they were greeted by violent anger. Not only did the magistrate not listen to their protests that their costumes were worn for comfort in their “walking and surveying,” and also that it was no longer considered impolite to wear spectacles, but he ordered them to be removed to a separate room and given ten slaps apiece. They are now seeking the support of the Peiping Newspapermen’s association for the dismissal and punishment of the magistrate.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1934, Page 12
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