in Shantung by, the German troops. The inhabitants of these places were considered responsible for the recent attempt to murder three German travellers, and it was deemed wise to inflict heavy punishment upon these would-be murderers and their bettors in order to divert their minds from any further generation of mean in equities, Whatever may be sid in extenuation of is resolute method of education, the ese regard it as sheer, wanton bar-To burn down villages belonging ridly Power, and to imprison men against whom nothing criminal has been proved, is in celestial eyes a contravention of international, and, in fact, of all law and justice whatsoever. ' Village-burning as a punishment for the perpetration of atrocities has been regarded as a justinblo form of correcting the eccentricities of savages. But while the Chinese might not seriously object to such operations in Borneo, Burma, or Africa, ete., they are simply appalled'at the sight. of foreigners treating the people of the province of eat sages" as if they were nothing
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