Show RACE OF SLAVES IN CHINA ARE FREED AFTER YEARS L Lazy Lary Men Tribe Descendants of Mongol Conquerors Conqueror Are Given Full Citizenship Peking After After being held In bondage for t MO 0 years the descendants of ot the Mongols who conquered China In the Fourteenth century and who have been k kept pt In a state of ot virtual slavery ever since In province south of ot Shanghai have ha been freed by for for- mail edict of Gen Gea Chiang Jal From the tho year OCO I to 1127 1121 the Sung dynasty ruled China undisturbed Th Then n at et the time of 01 the Crusades In In Europe when Russia also was vas being overrun by Mongol tribes the Mon Mongols descended from the north and ind west upon ullon China After a long period of ot civil war lOd chaos the Mongols founded the Yuan dynasty with eking a as their capital in the year 1280 1250 This dynasty lasted less than a century being superseded In 1369 by the Ming Poling dynasty which In turn was wall overthrown overthrown over over- thrown by the In 1044 the later holding the throne until the republic republic re re- public was founded In 1011 When the Mongol dynasty collapsed In 1303 1304 and the Imperial Yuan family retreated northwestward to about Mongol garrison troops In King Click province were cut off An Imperial edict Issued by the first Ming flung emperor trade made these Mongols all iiI slaves aves and though they have not been subject to personal sale for tor some nomo hundreds hundreds hun lIun of or y years n rs the they have been harshly harsh ly If oppressed for five ft and a halt half cen cent tunes For roo years carll these marooned Mongols Mongols Mon on gols ROls have been officially listed as 81 an nn Int Inferior race rare They have been debarred debarred de do barred from taking part In civil servIce service servo ice examinations and have not been permitted to hold public office So strong has baa bee the tha prejudice against them that not a single case of Intermarriage e with a II Chinese has beta been recorded In occupations they have been limited to chair bearers rickshaw rickshaw rickshaw rick- rick shaw pullers firemen barbers and aneS shoemakers Today these Mongols 1 number about at Io where they are nicknamed I lazy zy men live lve at nt Chu-Chow Chu and Wen Chow where they are called cheap men and others othI distributed throughout the province number more und and are known as the nine degenerate families Under the new mandate all trades and professions profess are thrown open tl to these Mongols their children may be educated with Chinese children when and If the war lords lord release any revenue rev rev- revenue time for tor educational purposes Haiti ami the tho ban against Intermarriage Is officially officially abolished |