To the Editor of the "NonrH-CHiwa Datty News."
Sir,—Another foreigner has ioen one to death in cold blood and another name has to be added to the ong list of those snerificed on ths altar of China's incompetency, dageneracy and lawlessness, The cir cumstances attending this latest wish T could hope it were the last) crime are distressingly tragic and the manner in which Inv. Hawley met his end is a reminder of some of the dreadful massacres of ers which may he credited to China's past, when China did not. claim a seat' at the Council tables of the nations of the West. Here are th rel facts, an by cold, 9 1 cot rabble, one detoncoleas ly man against many, to the water's edge sui there done to death in a dastardly und despicable manner, with boat hooks and poles, and body left in the miry water, ugh to make the gods weep, gentleman should 0 one of whi was fitted to Wek his shoes, ed that such bestial mobs exist lands, but herein lies the difference. In Western lands the arm of the law prevents operation, or if they should op ensures swift retribution, But will i il justi other similar cases staring usin the face? Perhaps there will he paltry monetary compensation, but what is the value of that and will it prove a deterrent? T venture to think mot. Stern justice should: have been meted out then and there to that cowardly rabble, No other appeal to their natures would have sufficed. Then what about the Chinese practice and recog) the code of mutual respon Axe not the officials who po sort of thing just ax guilty, under their own code, as the rabble wh they are supposed to govern? The blood of Mr. Hawley eries out, not for revenge he last of all probably would have wanted that—but for ai ug on the p the foreign Powers to a realization of the present dirt of things in China, Tam no so-called "old-fashioned" foreigner, unable to detach myself from the too rigid traditional notion of the best way for foreign nations to treat the Chinese, wi ment of mailed-fist doen Tone who is unmindful of the new influences at play in China and the advent of "Young China," requivins, certain revision of the foreigners" methods in their dealings with the Chinese. I do not propose the seizure of Chinese territory because But I would ask the enlightened students of Chi those who have knowledge of course of justice in England, for instance—what do they propose should be done in the matter? And cree that, notwith-of any abstract rights," it would have been to the of all if " foreign gunboat had given that dastardly mob the hiding of their lives? Now then "refurl students" (and please do not thi T use the term disrespectfully; [am quite serious) let's hear fr What have you to so dastardly eri and I prefer tive criticism where noble country: is concerned, but T cannot disregard the appeal' thut the blood of an innocent man makes sti to. me, notwithstanding that the man himself was totally unknown, to me.
Tam, ete., Shanghai, July 1, 1924, 4
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.