Persons visiting St. Paul's Church motory at Pont Ste, Catherine during the past few days report that the cemetery is in a deplorable state, There is desolation every whose, Tombstones have been want coly tora down and broken, graves trampled upon by men and! por dead days and dead eats lie ever ud where, the poor animals having a} Parently been used ay targets. About the only thing which has not been done is the tearing open of the graves.
Ju the days of the Manchus, secretion was considered one of the worst of crimes and it was punishable by decapitation. The new Chinese Criminal Code, drafted by Dr. Wang Chung-hui, president of the Judicial Yuan, and promulgated only 4 couple of years ago, provides that "Whoever openly commits any me sulting act against any..... grave shall be punished with' imprisonment for a term of not more than months' detention, or & fine of not move than $300", On inquiry being made, it was Javcertaino} that soldiers had broken the lock of the gate and used the cemetery as a resting place. Ponies were led imide and allowed trample over the graves while Rrazing. Not satisfied with this, these brave saviours and protectors fof the people took it upon theme selves to smash the headstones. in Wanton a manner as possible. Only a Sew have been lett standings but even these are in a shaky post ven those of relatives of Wang, the Foreign not immune, When the watchman vemonstrathe was beaten and told that in China (the soldiers) would damage every Christian grave they came across. "And it looked a [though they meant to carry out According (0 the watchman, the soldiers did everything but dig open the raves. They shot and killed clogs and cuts and threw the corpses nto the cemetery and. threatened jim with dive punishment if he tried to remove then The men responsible are soldiers of the Filth Division under Gen. Fsiung Hasi-hui, the Shanghai and Woosung Gendarmerie. Commission for, It will be difficult. to trace the perpetrators but it aay well hoped that Hsiung? will hold the officers concerned responsible and will polish them, at Toast, in accordance with the very lenient laws of the National Government.
St. Paul's Church is an institution which the Late Dean Symons. had Very much at heart, he having, for many years, been actively associated with it as' minister. "among the members are Dr. and Mrs, Wang, who no doubt will take steps to demand the punishment of those responsible for the outrage.
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