THE USE OF A BATON.
A POLICEMAN SEVERELY PUNISHED.
United Press Association—Per Electric - Telegraph—Copyright. Received 4.27 p.m., February 4th. . PEKIN, February 5. A Chinese policeman who is ia the employ of the British Municipality at Tientsin, in enforcing the traffic orders on the occasion of Yuanshikai's .visit, lightly touched an outrider with his baton. The municipality, wishing to avoid a repetition of the Shanghai incident, apologised and handed the policeman over to the Chinese, conditional on his being lightly punished. The Chinese inflicted on the man.one. thousand blows with a bamboo, and three years', hard labour, -. ..
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12894, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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96THE USE OF A BATON. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12894, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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