Ir is to be regretted that the charges against Petterson, the Swege who was alleged by the rice-boat men to have killed a Chinese, could not have been more fully investigated. Not that it would have brought home to Petterson any degree of guilt in the crime with which he was charged, but because it would have demonstrated in the end what terrible risks foreigners would run in China were it not for the protection afforded them by extraterritoriality. Petterson, in the course of his duty ju keeping the traffic clear on the Soochow. Creek, was involved in a
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