"From time to time, I have made the question of the abolition of extrality a feature of some pro minence. in my letters. To us who are living in China, it seems incredible that our Western governments should Iend an ear to quests for its abolition at the present juncture. But, the persistence with which certain Chinese spokesmen bring the matter forward at conferences in the West and protest that the insult to China's sovereign tights can be no longer borne with; and, it must be added, the way in which our Government has recently being acting in Egypt, India and other parts of the East, give one an uneasy feeling of insecurity. I do not think, however, I have been able to send to you any such clear demonstration of the utter unfitness of the Chinese. Government to take control of Western citizens as will be found in the accompanying document which. it is of importance to remember, is not some inference of a Western mind, or some mere private report of what is happening, but an actual official statement of a legal process by the men who occupy the position of responsibility and power, and, as shown by the document, exercise the power of life and death over Chinese subjects. The following is a translation of a column of information given in the "Ta Tung Poo," the Yeading newspaper of Changsha, in its issue of yesterday, September 24, 1922, All but the title and the opening sentence is not the comment of the newspaper, but the actual official document.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.