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assassinated before we can get a conviction against a man who
incites people to such assassination."
In view of this acquittal my repeated
assurances to the Viceroy that this Government is anxious to
co-operate in the suppression of crime, and has enacted an
Ordinance to make it criminal to publish matter calculated to
excite to disorder or crime in China, become of no account,
and may with good reason be regarded by him as hypocritical,
since the Chinese cannot understand and believe the entire
independence of the Executive enjoyed by the Courts of Law and
Juries.
Since the verdict of the Jury was
apparently based on the summing up of His Honour the Chief
Justice (see the Attorney-General's minute above) I wrote to
His Honour enquiring what alteration (if any) was in his
opinion necessary in the wording of the Ordinance in order to
make it effective against literature advocating the extinction
of the Manchus. I attach copies of the correspondence to-
-gether with a copy of the Chief Justice's "summing up" as
appeared in the local press in the trial referred to.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Mangar
Governor, &C.
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