Sept. 1
In a letter written by a Chinese resident and published last week with reference to the! kidnapping evil, the contention was put forward that nothing' but flogging and imprisonment! (capital punishment for the leaders of gangs, but also with flogging) would ever effect any substantial improvement in the! ease of that form of crime. This is a view, and by no meal confined to kidnapping offences, held by practically everybody. who knows anything about Shanghai's criminal history in recent years, and only because! of an almost maudlin sentimentality on the part of some! foreigners assisted by—an equally maudlin chauvinism on the part of Chinese who would! wish to strip the foreigner of every shred of power, it has not! been put into practice. This! particular brand of chauvinism calls for especial deprecation in this instance, for here we have a Chinese to. all intents and Purpose appealing for. the "cat" while the. theoretical. polities
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.