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or to excite persons to crime in China. The book was bought
from the defendant in whose shop several hundred copies were
found and whose name and address were on the cover and inside
the book. The defendant was acquitted and the Attorney-General
minutes that "the case was virtually lost when the Chief
*Justice said that the following words did not amount to matter
"calculated to excite persons to crime in China:-
'Now it has come to this suckling to occupy the Throne. Pu Yi, that little tortoise, is only six years old. Everybody in the country isgroaning under their suffer- -ings and desires to drive him away. Send him away by any means. I shout out to wake up our brethren in the Central Region. That is right we should avenge the wrongs that have been done for ten generations. With one mind we should co-operate together to seize these Manchus. I shall undertake to do double of the share of this work'. N
The Crown Solicitor minutes "We have reached therefore the
absurd position that words which do in fact incite to crime are
not punishable because they are not in the opinion of the jury
likely to effect the result desired by the author.
The
guilty intent is to be disregarded and only the result looked
at.
We must wait until all the officials of China are
assassinated