In connexion with thi ease the 'Manchuria Daily News'
We are complimented by the conuibutor of the following news ax ever ready to champion the cause Jof the oppressed, and we really feel very much flattered by the com pliment:
About the middle of September, 1926, a simple Chinese citizen named Nin Ho-feng, who earned a modest iving making envelopes, was arrest ed by the Russian authorities at Blagovestehensk for dealing in fureign currency.
The evidence adduced against him was the finding of a voucher indieating a transaction amounting to $50. This was found to have been in con-ith a remittance from connexions across the territory.
The jctim of this outrage is al Chinese with his friends and relatives all in China. decree that there Is li just to should no9 monetary communications between them?
If he is utterly cut off, how can he support his family, and if "dealing in foreign currency" is for biden, how can he, when occasion' demands, convert funds from his home into local currencies to meet his local debts? Surely this is a most unjust decree.
Even had the unfortunate man been guilty of a heinous offence' in' mon humanity demands that he should have a speedy hearing and settlement.
In a civilized country, even the most, vile of criminals is given a speedy trial and thus spared anxiety, fear, and even privations to which thig' unfortunate man has been, and still is, subjected.
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