With the sentence passed on Harbak Singh in the British Police Court on Tuesday for the publics tion and distribution of seditious literature, and" the subsequent disgraceful. seenes in the courtroom and in the compound of 17. B._ M. Consulate-General (all described elsewhere in our col-jumps) there opens a fresh chapter {athe history of the Such community "in Shanghai, We "opens" advisably, for we unless the steadier and respectable element of the Sikh community in this Settlement steps in aod uses ite influence to. calm down the more heady of its brethren this will not be the last, of such cases, It is a significant fact that of the crowd of Indians both in the courtroom and outside, large proportion of the faces were those of men appearing before the Bench time after time on charges lof drunkenness, assault and petty thefts, in other words the "bad-hats"' and lower classes of the. Sikhs. Of educated men, with the exception of the prisoner in the dock there were none. Wo say this, certainly not to disparage the Sikhs as a community, but to support our contention that it is 1 worst of them only who support these fanatics. In the history of India we find much to feed our pride, great deeds of endurance and' feats of courage and in nearly all we find the Sikhs fighting side by side with our soldiers, sharing in our victories, bearing with the burden of our defeats, the Great War the story is repeated, the Sikhs have always been our gomuino friends and His Majesty's loyal subjects. "In the Indian Mutiny the Siths stood by us to. man, and it was largely due to their aid that we turned so 300 the dreadful tide which 1 [threatened to engulf ws. That that feeling of mutant "'diniration fand friendship has suddenly cease fed to exist we refuse to believe, you" tight be interested la 3 I oldest (and. fast de-which Tr picked up at's sail Wayside have " piece of silk 10m, by 205m Sill in Shanglang Province sone fest Chinen charnetors written ich han oer theo sea, the writing being ite' shot Iacvelleas if you have seen sample Jot Chinese characters, fandkerchit?" was used for and then aller inquiries amongst my Chinese ficholar sequaintanoes 1 discovered that ti ting must have can dove, '\eslebeatet panna many yeara, 9 fod ta uso Coulated in' is bolag ie lee passages inscribed on the sill re sll selections from Chinese Classica upon which the scholar would probably be examined.
The original cast of such a "crib'" must have been voey great, though I pail no more for it than the average Echortho ut homo would have given for for Law or Caear.
In this case clearly tha erth was used for personal advantage. Tt would seem that as with many things which we learn to do first and make laws about afterwards, the schoolboy code was invented Inter.
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