Swatow, Aug. 23.
Last week I reported the outrage Jcommitted on a leading Chinese British subject by the police here. This has been followed up by a still more dastardly attack upon another man by the strike pickets, The victim in this case is the head Chinese in the employ of Messrs. Bradley.
Ca, with whom he has been for 30 years. Like other Chinexe employees, he, of course, had not been }working in the office since the boy-but recently, asthe mess to transact with the Reclamation Bureau, he was given a special official permit to attend the office. In the face of this: the was, some days ago, on his ar. rival at the office, laid hold of by a body of pickets, and carried off to one of their dens, where he has been chained up and kept on the verge of starvation since—in the hope, no doubt, that he will come to the! point of paying some huge sum for release from his misery. So much for the value of the pledged word of the official. So much also, alas, for {the value of the once boasted British citizenship. So much, again, for the justice which we are assured a is going to mete out with open hand when extraterritoriality woes. The official position is that Chinese are Chinese, and have no right to call themselves citizens of other countries. It looks as if the!
British government had decided to take the same view. If so, it is at Toast due to the Chinese who think they can claim British protection that the government should enighten them,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.