Foreign Lady Attacked, treated and Detained in Prison Cells Hongkong, Oct, 0.
Mrs, Harvey L. Decker, the wife of the manager of the Canton City Transportation Company, was on October 4 subjected in Canton to the indignity of rough-handling, jostling, Jeering and finally of Getention in a barred police-cell by force of 20 armed and unarmed Chinese policemen.
Decker, who suffers from delieKto health, went of the police-station in connexion with a demand for a police. tax, het husband being: engaged on business. On her plead= ing exemption from' the tax on the ground that the Transportation Company was a foreign corpora tion, the policemen probed her ribs with the muzzles of their revolvers dragged her off her motor-car an carried her into the cell.
The victim endeavoured to communicate with the American Consulral, but Was prevented by police officials from doing ce. After nearly two hours, Mr. Decker wa of his wife's predicament.
Woked the assistant: American Consul, who proceeded t the station and secured Decker's release—Reuter's Pacific Service.
U. S. Consul's Strong Protest to Canton Authorities Canton, Oct. 8. It is understood that the American Consul has lodged a vigorous protest with the local authorities insisting on the adequate punishment of the police responsible for the rough handling of Mrs. Harvsy Decker, who was arrested and detained at a police station for nearly two hours on October 4.
Mrs. Decker has now left the hospital.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Miss Elsie Me Cormick, known to residents of the Far East by her "Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby," was a passenger in the President Taft. At present she remaining in Yokohama. Miss Mc-'Cormick has been sent out by the "New York World" to gather material for a series of "feature" storfes. She will visit China, where she will stop for a short time, before continuing her journey.
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