The Archive · 1914

"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT."

To the Editor of the "Nonra-Carxa Day News."

Sm,—The Saturday issue of one of your contemporaries treats seriously the report from Peking that the Chinese Government is re-establishing flogging in its Courts of Justice as a punishment for certain criminal offences.

Your readers will undoubtedly be glad to have your authoritative assurances concerning the matter, for many of them must be ready to aid the efforts which will probably be promptly put forward by the Con-salar Body and the Municipal Coun: vil for the introduction into the Mixed Court, Shanghai, of a method of punishment so worthy as a whole-

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