To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Datty News.
Sir,—As publications will give assistance to the weak and smooth irregularities among the mankind, will you therefore give me a little space in any columns of your valuable paper to insert the attached announcement. nounce to the public, the. following I, the undersigned, beg to an-illegal justice, that I am a native of Nin; 47 years old, having without any trouble with somebody, arrived Chefoo 32 years hitherto,
and having served the submarine Telegraph Company the same length of time with satisfaction. My eldest son, 18 years old, named Yang Ji-hsing had also served the same company but was compelled to resign there owing to prolonged illness and bad eyesight. After his recovery from illness, he made friend with a boy, 16 years old, named Woo. This boy is also not very good behave for they both like to play and fire crackers in the darkness to frighten men. Once upon a time, a cracker was unfortunately fired into the house of a Japanese who took it as a bomb. After having reported the case to the Chinese policy, the Chinese. authorities were so alarmed that they made serious arrest of the bomb throwers.
In the August, the two boys, in a certain evening, were again, by wearing masks, frightening men in the house of a Chinese named Tan. The boy Wioo was at once arrested by the police. In passing sentence in the police station section I, the boy Woo spoke out the case of cracker firings in the former times. In the next morning, the police there fore went to the boy Yang's house in search of contrabands but not a bomb nor a cracker had been found. The boy Yang was arrested to the central police station where he passed sentence as follows:—Have you fired?" asked the police master. "Yes," replied the boy. The meaning of the question was a bomb, that of the reply was a cracker. Upon this travesty, the boys were judged by the General Chang to suffer imprisonment as published in the. local papers, 15 and 5 years respectively. Besides the boys should deserve, together with bandits, a pretended shooting execution which may cause them mad.
I beg to give the above particulars for public critics, that if the boys had thrown a bomb, why nothing damaged and none killed; and why not a little proof of either a piece of bomb shell or some metallic requisites belonging to a bomb be shown to the criminals. If not, the boys had fired a cracker without hesitation. Though it was the boys' fault, yet should they be imposed with such am enormous punishment. I have the honour to entreat for legal judgement, from the public.
I am, etc., Cottage No. 60 Broadway, Chefoo, Sept. 12, 1922.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.