Ch4i Hsin (Manchu ex-President of the Bourd of Rites) who was arrested by the Tapanese in Peking last September has, according to a Peking dispatch, committe suicide by hanging in his place of confinement, It will be remembered that when Ch4i Hsiu's mother died the other day, the Japanese courteously allowed him in all about twenty days' leave to perform the faneral rites for his mother, bat it is sup-paved that the example of the Allies at Paoting in executing the mandarins arrested by them forced Ch'i Hsin to this step of self-destruction for fear of being also made away with like the Paotingfa officials,
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