CHINESE OFFICIAL'S DIGNITY.
ONE THOUSAND BLOWS. Received February 4, 4.46 p.m. PEKIN, February 3. A Chinese policeman in the employ of the British Municipality at Tientsin, while enforoing traffic orders on the occasion of -the visit of Prince Yuan-shih-kai (Comman-der-in-Chief of the Army and Navy) lightly touched an outrider with his baton. Tho Municipality, wishing to avoid a similar occurrence to the Shanghai incident, apologised and handed the policeman over to the Chinese, conditional upon bis being lightly punished. The Chinese officials inflicted a thousand blows with the bamboo and three years' hard labour.
CABLE NEWS.
Isy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7956, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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99CHINESE OFFICIAL'S DIGNITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7956, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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