SUM VET SUN'S STORY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 155, 26 October 1896, Page 3

SUM VET SUN'S STORY.

Lo\r>o\, t' t. "21. Smu \%t Sun - r:;.'-. two Chin»-f • : * d him >i • the Legation and coerced hiiu r, and they then locks 1 hmi up on the lop story. Sir 11. Macartney, he says, told him the Leg it ion v. .1 - t ..nivaleut to ' hina. and the 1.; it'-' -utile tally informed him that be v ould not have to apply for hi- exfr.idit < 1.. Sir H. Macerutey said lie would he '<• -und in a bag and put in a box o-i a \e--< ! which would Carry hint to ( hit;a. win.'re he would be t:\teuttd. If till smuggling failed he wonl'l he killed in the Legation, embalmed. and sent to IVkin for execution, where, though dead, the form of execution would be again gone through. Fearing that attempts wore being made to poison hiui. Sum Yet San nearly starved himself. Various attempts by hint to bribe the servants to inform his friends of his position *ere repeatedly frustrated. He finally succeeded, and by publicity given to the ease in newspaper* seen red hirelease. Tbe British orlicials regard the aiYair as a monstrous abuse of the privileges of the Legation. Sir 11. Macartney considers that under the circumstances he was justified in detaining the vi-itor. but declared there was no intention to tortnre him. It has -ill'. tran-pired that Sum Yet Sun h.,d i» fit cogged for two years.