We have already referred to the objections taken by the Chinese government to the conviction in the Mason case for, the possession of explosives, We learn now that a further objection relates to that part of the sentence which ordered the, deportation of the prisoner in the event of his not finding sureties to be of good behaviour for six months. 'The Chinese, we are told, protest most ener-ge tically against this. They argue that the deportation should have been' express and unqualified, on the ground that if the prisoner were able to spend large sums of money in enlisting men in Hongkong and in the purchase of arms, that, he can have no difficulty in providing the small. sureties if he should be so disposed. hey say also that when subjects of their own are being punished with the utmost severity for taking a much smaller part in the Secret Society movement, it will be a scandal if a British subject whose enlisting an armed force and whose possession of arms and dynamite have been proved, should be rmitted to go out after nine months' imprisonment a free man in China. Whey ask what their own subjects can think under these circumstances except that a European may rebel against the government of China and may carry out his conspiracy to overt acts of the most energetic description with comparative immunity. We make no comments on these complaints of the Chinese Government, but if our information is correct the Yamen is profoundly indignant at the whole affair and is determined to leave no stone unturned to assail the proceedings of the Shanghai Supreme Court in the matter.
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