After Months-of Imprisonment Without Trial and Abominable Il-Treatment by Yang Sen The welcome news reached Shanghai on Monday that Elly Widler, who snifered months of imprisonment in dirty Chinese military prisons and was twice told he would be executed, has been released.
It will be, remembered that as far back as September 10, soldiers acting under Gen. Yang Sen's orders nvrested Mr. Widler on a charge of armis smuggling at the Costios Club at Chungking and dragged him bound through the streets to the Magistrate's yamen, After a week in durance vile he was brought before the Magistrate trid another elfieial on. a. mock trial, ab which he was threatened with' bambooing and _executi The Magistrate enid to him: can have you bambooea and have you shot, Do you under~
"hen followed weeks of imprisonment, for allegedly selling} arma to the Southern forces, in the course of which ho frequent]
marched shackled a the streets from one yamen to another.
Than came the advance of the Southern troops against Gen. Yang Sen, He prepared to refront, Jooting the Cosmos Club, of which Mr. Widler had boon manager, and told his prisoner} that ho could buy his release for $200,000 or be shot, 'At the. time of Yang Sen's hurried flight, in, November, after expanding woaks in a dirty' m "tnay gaol, Mr. Widler, was drag. march with Gen." Yang Sen's re-Treating army all the way from Cirungking to Waohsion—10 days march: Ho was laughed at, mock. ed_ and ill-treated by the' rabble composing the Northern army.
Arriving at Wanhsien, ho, was flung into w public _gnoly wh presumably he remained until a fow weeks og Although, he. claitne Swiss citi-von ship, "Mz, Widler is not vee feognized as subject of that country, which now enjoys exten territorial priviloges—hence this story of illtveabnent. and persecu: tion:
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