The only sober moral of this sto: is that the police on the concessions really are a bit callous in their trentment of the riesha coolies, In this matter, the Chinese members of the police force are every bit us guilty as the Sikh policemen employed in the British Concession, anid shared by their Chinese]
in the native city of Hankow, in Wuchang and in Hanyang. To try to turn this affair into an instance of foreign aggression and injustice is the height of absurdity.
As if to remove any lingering. doubt of the fairness of the above statement, the very paper which. records this affair ofthe murdered riesha coolie (the Hankow "Peh-hua Pao") reports on the same sheet two other instance of coolies being maltreated by police—in both eases Chinese police. The former of these took place on the same day as the affair related above. A policeman on the Second Special Administration District (late Russian Concession) struck a riesha coolie several times on the side of the head. He then took him to a police-station, where the guard again struck him with a rifle, causing' "wounds all over his body". He was then thrown into gaol where he "vomited blood not a little" and his life was hanging in the balance. To their credit, be it said that the riesha coolies of Hankow have all subscribed their hard-earned pennies to give this man, by name Yang Lao-pao, a few comforts in prison. The other case, which took place fon the following day, was that of food-vendor who apparently was wandering in the roadway at the back of the French Concession. A Chinese policeman fell upon him and beat him and broke up his bowls, plates and cooking-stove. He was taken to the police-station at Ta-chih men, fined a dollar and "then ceseaped with his life".
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