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not then I must again argue against it as evidence that torture is sometimes employed at the time. I have reasons for suppressing that if employed on that occasion it was on that occasion merely, knowing that its employment was with a view that...
remark that in China? I may note the reporter does not speak of it as if it were something unheard of.
New Law In either the Supreme Court or a Consular Court of 1879 shown that punishments of great cruelty are inflicted by the mixed courts. It gives a bit of I think some 24 cases tried by those mixed courts in 1879. Damages, from $100 to $300, were awarded: a few, the culprits were punished also. In six cases the assessor was a British Subject and the culprit was punished apart from the punishment in two of them.
(2) Next regards extradition. If the remark that promises against torture are exacted, I ask of what avail are such promises if they are not observed? See the case in the North China Herald of July 29th, 1879, showing that 13 prisoners were tortured.
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