The police are of the belief that the murderer shortly after the
riesha to the building occupied by was committed took a Mr. Lock and entered. searched the premi: 3 the next! morring and allege they found blood-stains on a bed-sheet. Chemists who made a test of the blood discovered Inter that the blood was not that of a man.
The police, excited over a series of crimes, apparently are determined to save face" by making wholesale arrests" and in the 1a week havi a large numb of Chinese as well as about ten foreigners, mostly Russians, all on suspicion of being connected with the Fischer murder, Of the "Tsingtao following to say ight method of procedure and a wrong method, and Director Chao Chi, secure in, his apparent. conviction that Lock is the murderer, has placed himself, as representing. the Chinese Govern: ment, in a position that calls for: immediate and severe protest. Apart from whether Lock is. or not the criminal, if the British authorities are going to permit} their subjects to be searched, to, have property removed from residences, to. be tied up, and be. detained ina Chinese prison without any warrant of arrest, without any search warrant, then it is indeed time that the British Chambers of Commerce in the Orient take steps to see that the Foreign Office is, made cognizant of the! situation."
Tt should be stated here that after the leading article was written, Lock' was released, there being no evidence on which to base a charge.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.