General regret will be felt that the Mixed Court found, Is impossible to put Comrade Dosser safely under lock and key, for some years to come. For. the present at any rate he must be regarded as an extraordinarily lucky person. The Court had no apparent doubt that he was pré- paring to carry out the work for which the Agitation Department had commissioNed him, but could not bring that prepara-an attempt under the Cod However, they have no doubt aa to Dosser's being a thoroughly undesirable person, who should accordingly be expelled from the Settlement. So it is ordered.
But while we regret that Dosser goes free, this most important gain has been made. The Court have no doubt whatever that the famous certificate jund in the code book is genuine, The evidence on this point was perfectly clear, supported by four witnesses who remained entirely _unshaken under severe cross-examination. That there shall be no misunderstanding as to the judgment, the sor and the Chinese Magistrate have each issued their own, one in English, one in Chinese. So then, seeing that the certificate is genuine, it follows that there is also an Agitation Department established by the Soviet "Government for the deliberate purpose of stirring up strife and disorder in China—the country with which the Soviet only last year entered into an agreement of ithe capital, taking @ Kindlier|peace and amity. That fact, taken in conjunction with the view, say" that he and his! colleagues are in such a deadly' funk (to use a common phrase) of the students and agitators that their only idea is to-do from [day to-day what may seem most expedient. We are to conclude, therefore, that Marshal Tuan's 'Government is utterly vicious or utterly weak, Under either' alternative it is entirely worth-Tess from the standpoint practical dealing. That is an important point to bear in mind when everyone is talking of the conference that is to come of some time in the autumn and lof all that #t is to do for China. present state of terrorism aad upheaval may be commended to the attention of all sober-minded Chinese. And they may ask themselves why the Soviet deliberately sets out to make trouble in their country; and whether it is for love of the Chinese or for some sinister motive of its own that the Soviet sets up an Agitation Department in China and commissions its mast ents to carry out the plots of that Department; and whether the vicici anti-British colour, which has somehow been given to the We believe that a conference ould be held; we hold that the real motive is, in thus aspirations and complaints of the sing the peace and welfare of a Chinese people should receive friendly peoptc for its own full and frank consideration; we designs.
Jardently desire that the wretched It is not quite clear why turmoil of recent years and execution of judgment has been the hateful bitterness between! stayed for fourteen days. Seeing Chinese and foreigners should what Dosser is, the sooner the be ended in concord, reorganiza-' {Settlement is rid of him the tion and satisfaction of all just claims. But not for one manent better, But the delay may by {usefully employed in convincing would we agree to such a con-{the Chinese authorities to whom ference if the worthless thing he is to be handed over that he that poses as a Government lis no person to be allowed to Peking is to be admitted as sol move about freely. Meanwhile representative of the country. e heartily endorse We may see for what it counts {Maitland's application that the when Canton declines to allow' man shall be put under proper Peking any share in the arrange-{restraint for the fortnight that ment of its affair with Hong-' he"is to remain in" Shanghai, kong, despite the fulsome way'
After the judgment delivered in which Feking has been by both " Magistrate and "sucking up" to the forces of Assessor, Dosser is for all disorder which Canton repre practical purposes a convicted felon; in such a"casé bail is 'There was a time, even since surely inadmissible; and it the Republic began, when Pe-{would be contrary to all king to some extent controlled Bolshevist practice that'. me fall China. Ther its sway was should not use the fortnight rrestrieted to the Yangtze and giver: him fo be revenged on the northwards. Then it twas out Settlement. In the present down, to the metropolitan procoMlapting state of the strike' vince of Chibli, Even this tittle domain.dwindled to, the walls of highly undesirable that such person should be at I4rs the capital itself. Now. not artil he is andes ott oar even master of "the city.:'he Chinese, we tee AME Powers-must miske'a: fresit cast]
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