The discussion concerning the Fukien students held by the City authorities has taken.a new turn, a business having been ingeniously brought in with a view to assisting one of the alleged political offenders. One of the students is insur-with a Fukien company, and the matter of his imprisonment was reported to its representative in Shanghai. Accordingly, this gentleman approached the City _authorities and informed them that his client had become thin and weak in consequence of his imprisonment, and took little food. He wound up by saying that, if the young man died, the authorities would be held responsible, but that this responsibility might be avoided by releasing the prisoner on security. It would seem, however, that the authorities remained unmoved by this ingenious plea on behalf of a policy holder.
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