The Archive · 1914

In Spite of Scholarship

This man, being in Peking, was arrested on the 17th, and it was nis arrest which caused so much excite-it, his scholarship alone onitling him to considerable respect. He also had written letters, and 'n addition endeavoured to bring che question that was on his mind home to the Secretary of State by including in the scroll which Sung sent him on his birthday a sugevstion that the Secretary of State should always remember his old master.

The publication of the Censor's impeachment, and the Presidential rescript which was attached to instructing the Ministry of the Interior to take proper action, was followed by a proclamation by the Minister of the Interior prohibiting people from making proposals ion of the Manchus all and sundry that anyone doing so would be arrested. This drew public attention to "he ject at once, and when it became he dreamed of the return to power of his old masters.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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