Mr. Wong is trying to lay hands on Mr. Kwan "as a witness" so he says. _But we may easily imagine how his "testimony" would be taken, with Mr. Kwam kneeling on red hot chains, or subjected to some other torture; in order to extort from him whatever "testimony" or confession might suit Mr. Wong's purpose.
Mr. Wong is not a magistrate in Shantung, or some far western province, but in Quinsan, half way between Soochow and Shanghai, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway: and in his district the American Baptist, Methodist, amd Presbyterian Missions are working.
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