A CASE OF KIDNAPPING

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 27 October 1896, Page 2

A CASE OF KIDNAPPING

London, October 23. SuN-YET-SIN, the Chinese doctor, was released from the Chinese Legation directly Lord Salisbury made tho demand. October 24. Sun - Yet - Sill states that two Chinese officials accosted him outside the Legation and coerced him to enter. They then locked him up on the top storey. Sir H. MacCartney, he says, told him the Legation was equivalent to China, and the Embassy officially informed him they would not have to apply for his extradition. Sir 11. MacCartney said he would be bound in a bug and put in a box on a vessel which would carry him to China, where he would be executed. If smuggling faded he would be killed in the Legation, embalmed, and sent to Pekin for execution, where, though dead, the foim of execution would be again gone through. Fearing attempts were being made to poison hiin, Sun-Yet-Sin nearly starved himself. Various attempts by him to bribe the servants to inform his friends of his position were repeatedly frustrated. He finally succeeded, and by the publicity given to tho ease in the newspapers ho secured his release. Tho British officiuls regard the afiair as a monstrous abuse of the privileges of the Legation. Sir 11. MacCartney considers that under the circumstances ho was justified ill detaining the visitor, but declares there was no intention to torture him. It has since transpired that Sun-Yct-Sin has been dogged for two years.