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taken round the walls of Nam Tau by the head of the police, a man called Cheng whom I knew five years ago when he was stationed
at Sham Chun. He told me that the case had been adjourned be- cause the Magistrate did not like to inflict torture in my
that torture would most certainly be inflicted and
presence
the
that method employed would probably be the process known as "Tiu pau fuk" or the "hanging bundle". This is a complicated arrangement in which a bamboo, cords, and weights play a part. The prisoner always confess under this process.
The infliction of torture has of course been abolished
by an Imperial Edict. I do not think that Imperial Edicts of this description are treated very seriously in China. A ChineBS Magistrate would probably admit that in theory the employment of torture was wrong but would hasten to add that in practice it would be impossible to carry on the business of his Court
without it. I noticed at Nam Tau that the leathern tawsəs used
for beating the cheeks of female witnesses were hanging on the rails of the Court and that the questions put by the Interpreter to the prisoner were punctuated by references to the bamboo.
Cheung Wan Ching would of course deny that any torture had been applied in this case and would say that I had misunder- stood what I heard. In this he would be supported by all the
minor officials. I have however no shadow of doubt that Leung Tau has been or shortly will be subjected to very severe torture
and that in the District Courte of China torture flourishes like
a green bay tree. It would be merely ostrich like policy to shut one's eyes to facts and assume that the Imperial Edict has had
any real effect in reducing torture in San On.
This being so it appears to follow that whenever the
instructions which have recently been received from home are xzida acted on and a Hongkong Official appears with witnesses in a Chinese Court the mere fact that a British Official appears
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will