Is it not time that the Chinese authorities of the Shanghai district took vigorous action to put a stop to the disgraceful agitation that has been worked up over the case of Chen Anvdong, the hawker who inet his death on board the Banri Maru? The calumny and venom expended by.the Chinese newspapers wan bad enough; but when it comes to calling strikes and endeavouring]
organize an anti japanese boycott, we ray that the Chief of the Chinese police should dear with the agitators drastically. The coze being actually and judice in the Nagasaki District Court, we should not ordinarily comment on its jesues but as these have been! prejudged thousand times over by the Chinese here, something in Justice should be said on the other! ride, There ayfpears no reasonable out that Chen An-dong's business on board the Banri Mara was. thit—we have even been told that the Chinese police admit he was a pmfcasional thief—that he had Committed a theft, had been detected and, in ruming away, tripped and fell' down hatchway. In other words, his death wax' entirely his fault. But the agitators: who: 4th in troubled waters find in it a ood opportunity to stir sider, with the yenults we have seen. 'The average Chinese may not trid stand how very badly such unfourdand despicable agitations damxo his country in the eyes of the world and prejudice his case where: he has a good one. But there is no lack of people in' authority on the Chinese side who have the wit and to understand this quite the tolerance they have extended the Chen An-long, agitation does not reflect well on their administration.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.