The Chinese police appear to be impressed with the notion nowadays that in any dealings with foreigners is not necessary to state a case for even to be sure that they are in touch with the right man, but simply to get hold of some one, or several if possible, be labour them unmereifully—preferably with a rifle butt—and then lock them up. If in the morning some interfering Consul should come along: an the victims to be absolutely innocent, why then they can be released and the affair forgotten, for Peking. sways can talk a matter of that sort to an end and in any ease there is no money in the treasury with which to pay _compensatis furthermore, the stupid foreigner does not seem to be able to tell tone Chinese policeman from another, so all are safe. The Peking and Tientsin incidents were bad enough, the affair at Woosung on Sanday" was.a gross abuse authority, and the story chronicled on another page of what happened at the Russian Students' Union tells of a downright outrage. Apparently the police consider now that Tiave a perfect right to break i any man's house without warrant, seize upon anyone within reach and, without making charges or asking questions, cruelly misuse people. Obviously in this case the police will say that they had reason to believe a man who had committed an offence was in hiding in the house and was being sheltered by the students, 'There were grounds for such a belief, but that does not justify breaking' into a house in the dead of night and committing violent assaults. If these police mien donot mend their ways, some day they will be taking liberties with someone who keeps a kennel of Alsatians, or they will be paying unexpected call on the mess where there gather all our Battlers, Kids, Babes, Terrors, and Champions of uncharted areas. Tt, is unlikely that in such an event there will be any argument by the slow process of the exchange of diplomatic notes especially with the Alsatians,
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