Massa Singh and Nand Singh declared that they would rather go to prison than pay up, but Hari Singh expressed his willingness to pay.
The Magistrate—I must remind you that a recognizance is not an amusing thing. It is a solemn promise to carry out certain conditions. These conditions have be broken and the Government mus take action. T warn you men that if you are looking for trouble in Shanghai it can easily be found, if you persist in this pinpricking and girding against the Government.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.