We in London have had a little Chinese crisis all to ourselves this week, but it has not lasted long. Yesterday afternoon the Globe published an extraordinary account of the kidnapping of a Chinese doctor—one Sun Yat-sen—and his imprisonment at the Chinese Legation. He had, it was understood, been concerned in a plot at Canton and Hongkong last year to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, had escaped from Hongkong, and come to London. He was seen in the streets by some subordinate officials of the Legation, who managed to rush him into the building in Portland Place where he was locked up in a room by the hand of Sic Holliday Macartney himself. Representatives of other newspapers and news Agencies were of course soon on the scent, and their enquiries proved that the Globe story was true in its main features at least. Sir Holliday Macartney, discovered in the Midland Hotel by an energetic interviewer, frankly admitted that Dr. Sun was detained at the Legation, though he denied absolutely that the man had been kidnapped in the streets, or even inveigled into the building. He had ventured in of his own accord. There was much discussion as to
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