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Fearing  a  riot  against  the  police  on  the  part  of  the  mob,  the
Magistrate  ordered  the  gates  to  be  temporarily  closed  in  order
to  prevent  outsiders  from  coming  in.  Following  on  this  the
police  forcibly  took  away  the  defendants,  male  and  female.
Nothing  can  render  a  worse  insult  to  the  dignity  of  an  independent ­
  country  than  such  treatment  of  its  officials.
“  Finally  the  two  runners  who  were  hurt  by  the  police  have
been  examined  by  a  special  officer  sent  by  the  Shanghai  Taotai
and  also  by  Dr.  Ransom,  the  latter  granting  a  certificate  as  to
the  condition  and  nature  of  injuries  received  by  the  runners  in
question.”
The  London  Times  of  November  1,  1906,  contains  a  letter  on
this  subject  from  the  Rev.  W.  Arthur  Cornaby,  Corresponding
Secretary  of  the  Christian  Literature  Society  for  China,  who  has
peculiar  opportunities  for  knowing  what  the  Chinese  think  on
public  questions.

Chinese  Girl  Slavery  and  the  Shanghai  Municipality
To  the  Editor  of  u  The  Times  ”
Sir,—I  have  been  asked  to  send  you  some  particulars,
hitherto  unpublished  in  England,  concerning  the  Shanghai  riot
of  last  December  and  its  sequel.  I  am  in  touch  with  Chinese
public  opinion  from  long  residence,  and  latterly  the  editorship
of  a  weekly  newspaper  in  Chinese.
Until  toward  the  end  of  last  year  all  the  Chinese  complaints
which  reached  me  were  concerning  the  Chinese  side  of  the  Mixed
Fourt,  and  especially  the  notorious  “  runners  ”  of  that  Court,
t  he  Chinese  of  Shanghai  felt  they  were  not  sufficiently  protected
the  fact  of  a  Western  assessor  sitting  to  watch  the  cases,
i  hey  deemed  the  French  settlement  system  to  suit  them  better,
where  the  Western  was  the  judge  and  the  Chinese  Mandarin
ne  assessor.  And  not  until  the  case  of  a  woman  from  Szechwan,
1  poteen  young  girls,  being  arrested  by  the  Western  police
suspicion  of  kidnapping,  did  the  native  papers  and  talkers
m&lt; T rc i lan .t  S u ilds  take  sides  (before  the  case  had  been  tried)
1  h  the  Chinese  Mandarin  against  the  police  and  municipal
°uncil.  This  is  to  be  explained  by  the  following  facts.
^  riot  in  Shanghai  was  threatened  as  early  as  July  9  last
of  a +i  (1905)  in  a  Chinese  document,  handed  to  certain  members
o  the  Municipal  Council  and  others,  by  a  league  of  Chinese
ners  of  certain  unmentionable  property,  who  appended  their