To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—Here is another incident which will support your correspondent '"'A.B.C.'s'" letter of yesterday: on the above subject.
A hawker visited a foreign house in Kuling and sold some of his curios there. As he went away the servants chased him and demanded a commission on the proceeds. As the hawker would not pay them money, and to which they were in no sense entitled, they beat him.
Both parties were arrested by the local officials and imprisoned, the servants for two months and the hawker for three months.
The official was asked why the hawker, who was the completely innocent victim of the servants, was imprisoned and why for a month longer than his assailants. The reply given was that if he did not punish the hawker he would have all the servants at Kuling up againSt him.
The possibility of foreigners being subjected to summary arrest and imprisonment without trial is monstrous. The Chinese ideas of freedom and justice are as yet too far'
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