To the Editor of the Sin,—L shall feel obliged if yon will publish the following remarks with reference to certain statements which were made by Mr. T. Morgan Phillips in the course of the Haokow Road arson case held in the Mixed Court on daly 15. These statements were made by way of comment upon my evidence, and were fally reported in your paper therefore, feel that your columns-are statements, clear, as I do not wish my silence in the matter to be misconstrued by your readers.
to be known that L have ips to obtain " public withdrawal of these statements, and had intended, failing the publication of proper apology in your calamus, to institute legal proceedings, bat on' taking legal advice my lawyers point out to me that There no cause of action, because the statements in question, being made by counsel in the course of "judicial ceeding, are absolutely My object, therefore, in writing this letter is to show clearly to your readers that the silence which I have hitherto observed in thix matter is due only to the fact that my hands are bound by the law, which makes it impossible to take any action against counsel for words spoken in the course of any judicial proceeding, even though the words were uttered without any justification or excuse, and ie not due to the fact that I admit in any way the serious allegations which he made against me, which are groundless and without foundation.
Tam, ete., E. Q. Cooran. duly 28. duty to demand that official's punishment in order that the people of the Ewpiremight besppeased. Theresponse of the Throne is that the third-class Secretary question has acted ultra beg vires in asking such s high officer of the Crown as Vu Shih-mei to be cash-lered. Furthermore it has come to the knowledge of the Throne that the Society for the Investigation of Governmental matters to which the said memorialist (Chen Ching-jen) belongs is composed of an exceedingly bad company, many of the members of which are men who have been guilty of grave crimes. In order to put a stop to all undue interference and reckless denunciations in the future the memorialist must be cashiered and placed under surveillance as a warning to others.
(2) T'nan Vu-lan is appointed prefect of Chungking prefecture, province of Srechuan.
Lin Heiao-tso is appointed Lntendant of Industrial works for Yannan ince-(Ch'aansi Tao).
Note:—This post—a Tsotaiship—is one of the newly sanctioned posts in connexion with the Reform Propaganda started by the Central Government at (Hennching Tao)—Translator.
July 29.
Decree acknowledging the recei memorials from Chen K'nei-long, roy of the Hukuang provinces, and Teén Chran-mum, Governor of Hun: reporting serious inundations in the prefectures and sub-prefectures of Chénchon, Lichon and Yungshun, caused by the overflowing of the various river banks in that vicinity, brought about by the mountain freshets. Iarye number of lives have been lost, and houses and crops have been destroyed. Their Majesties express great aympathy with the flood sufferers and command the memorialists to give every help and assistance to those needing aid. that he has ordered the cultivators the 27,500 mow of land which comsprise the entire area upon which poppy is planted in Fokien province, t:
in sowing cereals on it early in the antnuin, under pain of confiscation ter Government if the poppy plant ix still cultivated there.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.