In opening the ease for the prosecution, Mr. Maitland gave an account of the circumstances which led to the prosecution of Sub-Inspector Dunne bu a charge manslaughter, subsequently missed, and quoted newspaper the matter the heading "Foreign assaults Chinese servant to death, the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce," in its issue of August 15,_ said that the officer's action was "barbarous, outrageous and inhuman," that the nature of the ease was more serious than that of.
Loh Tse-wha, and that after reading the account of it, all persons would become so angry. "that their hairs will stand on end.
The writer proceeded: "It the foreign policeman lost his temper! he could have infieted some slight punishment, was no] ut there reason for him to kick the coolie: to death. After kicking the coolie in the buttocks, he assaulted and stamped his fect upon the back and chest of the, coolie latter was crawling away. This shows that the foreign policeman treated Vich Chien-tsang as if he had been an ox, a horse, a chicken or a dog. It might be alleged that the foreign policeman looks upon Chinese as an inferior class of people whom he could treat with contempt without fear. Al if the people can bear up this, what else will they not be able to tolerate?" Mr. Maitland suggested that the object of thi criticism was not only to libel the Inspector, but to create antiforeign feeling in the Settlement. He went on to say that the "Shanghai Tribune" had an article written on very similar lines, but the "Eastern Times" was not quite so violent and had not the same anti-foreign strain. In conclusion, Mr. Maitland characterized the articles as the most gross and scurrilous libels ever produced.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.