To the Editor of the (ORTH-CHINA: DAM New Sim—It appears. from your issue of to-day that the National Associated Chambers of Commerce, and the Amalgamated: Street Unions have telegraphed to the National Government demanding. (inter alia) the death sentence for Private Price of the Wiltshire Regiment: recently convicted of the manslaughter of a Chinese.
Unintentional homicide is no more: capital offence under Chinese than under English law, as those who despatched the telegram should know. perfectly well.
would: be interesting to know: on: what grounds rests-the demand. that' a foreigner should be more severely punished than a Chinese in pari delicto; on a first impression, such a demand seems difficult to teconeile with the complaints about "inequality" which we hear 80 often from Chinese sources, Tam, ete, Enquinen,
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