CHINESE JUSTICE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 19 April 1910, Page 1

CHINESE JUSTICE.

c ! Chinese notions of justice cannot bo 1 disassociated from torture. This is s specially to be borne in mind, says a f Shanghai correspondent, in view of tho 3 . demand which is put forward by the r Chinese for the abolition of extra- ter- , ritoriahty in the empire. J m^^Ht time ago a Prisoner in tho i£l Se «2SW Shan g fa ai was award. [ od oveE.sooo blows with the bamboo . tor having appealed to the foreign con- ' {° r , Potion since he had been arrested legally withiu tho limits of the foreign settlement of Shanghai. ihe Chinese newspaper, the "i\ational Review," a journal of considerable standing, published a report of a case in the yamen, or. Court, of the Shil f T st r ate > *t SucW, of ■ ,i$ th€ following is a summary:— 'ncr if^ tthoritesi es arrested a kidnap, per at Tcuenwo, and brought 'him' to Sed 11 »J B WaS r a nati ? € of Hupeh l g *.. ' a * nd was formerly a soldier As the prisoner did not admit tho nta^M d " a PP in 6- the magistrate • £!a .ft? the b r bo ° be admf ™- S'+« K aCensed was > however, found to be a woman, and the magis his Acn C T U}S T y a,l^'> ordered loot, \° g u ve her several hundred lashes on l.er bare baok. The woman's story was that her husband had died several years ago and, being unable to support herself, she drefsed in n-an s clothes and joined the army The E™ er "' as . sentenC€ d to strangula\h?JZ T ? rossi . n 8 ™ ma «s clothes, aud thereby lowering the public morality "