TREATMENT OF DEBTORS IN CHINA.
I.v tho last batch of Chinese Medical Reports which have been published by order of the Inspector-General of Customs of Shanghai, Dr. W. Morrison, of Newcliang, mentions a revolting fact which must be new to many of our readers. It is that in some places in China debtors who arc unable to meet rho claims of their creditors are punished with the loss of siflit. In the case which came under Dr. 'Morrison's observation it was the debtor's son who was the victim of this diabolical custom. He was tied hands and feet, and deprived wholly of the sight of one eye, while that of the other would have been lost but for timely surgical aid. The offence was that the poor fellow's father owed the remorseless Shylocks 40 taels, orabont£lo in English money. Dr. Morrison was informed that tho cruel practice was by no means uncommon, and that about thy time he was attending to his patient another man died in the same neighbourhood from similar injuries. The Chinese authorities are investigating the matter ; and it is 'to be hoped that when Sir Robert Hart issues his next volume he will be able to speak of such barbarities as things of the past.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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209TREATMENT OF DEBTORS IN CHINA. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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