In the case of Chang Poyen the resourceful students dug a hole through the brick wall large enough to admit them, and thus forcing their way inside, dragged out the hapiies vote-seller and proceeded to administer mob justice in lieu of any other kind being available for such offenders. The American Ku Klux Klan would have been proud of if. Chinese imitators would they have seen pummelling their victim. Much more serious, however, was the manner in which they destroyed everything in sight. Windows and mirrors were _smashed, furniture broken, while silk, satin and fur garments together with bedding were torn into shreds and thrown into the canal-like -gutter.
Li Ching-kuan, the owner of several houses in one street, so successfully closed the doors of these houses that the studefits were unable to find the one in which the man himself lived. Therefore breathing out threatenings, to be carried out later, they took themselves off.
The group that went to attack
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