The "tu quogue"' argument is one to be used very sparingly. But when the Canton Times" becomes wrathful over '"'the latest stupidity of Hongkong officialdom" in arresting Chan Ping-sang, the ex-president of the Seaman's Union, it is pertinent to inquire where the first stupidity occurred. Chan was convicted on clear evidence of murdering his wife, with more atrocity, we believe, than ordinarily attaches to murder. He was condemned to death. Then, first, the death sentence was commuted to one of imprisonment. and finally he was pardoned and The common supposition is that liberated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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