(3) Hui Chang (Manchu) has presented a memorial referring to the execution of the six traitors the other day, and states that, owing to all six being of Chinese descent, there are rumours afloat among the masses that the Government protects and confides in men of Manchu descent while it considers all Chinese as outsiders." We ordered the execution of Yang Shen-hsin and his five companions becatise they were the principal members of the great traitor Aang Yiwei's Party, and not because they were of Chinese descent. To show that we were merciful we even notified that we were not going to implicate others of the Party. Where did this rumour come from? Can Hui Chang prove it; or is it the result of his own imagination? We have too much confidence in our officials, high and low, to think that they, as men of experience and intelligence, could be influenced by such rumours even if there were such, and they must feel and believe the government would never be guilty of partiality in its treatment of its subjects of any race or nationality.
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