Recalling the days when traitors' heads were exhibited in public ~ places, an electric light standard bearing the " caged " head of an executed Chinese general was recently erected at Hankow. In the " middle ages it was customary to exhibit the heads of traitors and criminals, nnd even in these days of Republican China the old custom v perpetuated in tha alectric tight sUndards,
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 21
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62Recalling the days when traitors' heads were exhibited in public ~ places, an electric light standard bearing the " caged " head of an executed Chinese general was recently erected at Hankow. In the " middle ages it was customary to exhibit the heads of traitors and criminals, nnd even in these days of Republican China the old custom v perpetuated in tha alectric tight sUndards, Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 21
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