Long Sentence on Chinese:
Worst Case in Annals of French Court Vu Pah-hong, a wealthy foreign-dressed Chinese of the French Concession, was sentenced by Grépin (Assessor) and Mr. Niel (Magistrate) at the French Mixe! Gourt on Saturday to 15, years' imprisonment (and expulion) for cruelty to children, whom he well knew were kidnapped, by compelling them to work from early in the morning to late in the ing in a prison-like room from they were unable to escape, assaulting them and underfeeding them.
'A report of the affair was _pub-the "North-China Daily vs" on the day following the discovery of the children in a house in Rue Admiral Bayle. The children were mostly kidnapped by one Hu Ching-dong and sold to Vu at $5 per head. Several were hired out parents to Vu and others were apprenticed to him by different charitable Chinese organizations which failed to investigate into the condition of the little ones after they had left their care, Revolting Tales The told in connexion with the altair were of a most revolting us ture. For failing to work through sickness, for working slowly and for other minor things the children were handcuffed and chained to the wall and beaten until they were half dead, From morning till evening they were kept huddled together in the one room, where they ato and stept, and were beaten and forced 0 make articles of brass and gi receiving only two insufficient meals each day for their labours. The children told the Court that all they had to eat were stale rice and rotten boiled cabbage.
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