The Archive · 1903

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The Antecedents, unfortunate Shen was x scholar and gentleman, and mixed freely wish the:

ses of He whom he had numerous trier possible: sion 6 enough that he was mise with the! whos: wa ow affair of LW, in which a dozen it. or so of h men lost their howls he having indeed if been axecretury in the Viceroy's yamen at Wuchons. ile escaped, however, to Japan, it is <pyser. and having made there some tiewls me returned 10 Peking about n year so a The pity of it is there newapnper reporter, and there is no sugges, instrument" wi tion that since hie return he has in any way orders.

If the interfered in polities. The worst th rallied that said against him is that he wes very japanese and consequently anti-Rissh to commit judicial ina ter, ut have east him his he 1 posts al hig telegemnn tothe japanese papers! would have been a toy of hope fo. "hina. the san were not always well-founded. He himself It might have marked a new era, the slaswn ascribes, as will he seen is of a tight for civil freedom. calamity to the fact of his having stated in A Swan Son a Japanese paper that China had cons 1 have abt ined. a copy of verses written to two of the clauses in the {tu mands which he calls the secret Treaty in this he was mistaken apparently, though it is not impo sible there was Hussian in. fluence at work. before his death The Tri eppily for hina, howe viticials Tak got hold identity and carried th was issu fr his a the aver thi of hist tin prison up te his cris!

dantiations 3s these nom h before 6 spe humninated by the Eipress consisted, not in call stating by simple rogation of the prison lih the in ments of torture red memory. The unhsy inst 3 and ne torture hack te be app usual course of Chine:

1 is that the ne verdict a Simply report there" was not possi His friends Throne, hing aunsted—noth that as toe ordi ary law pr nev execution shal: ti' he postponed till he an seme faint chane

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