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patriotism that we on that occasion adopted punitive
measures against the traitorous Ching. He must have been
fated to death at our hands, which was why no accidental
loss occurred to us even though we met with two
meddlesome Europeans who wanted to redress (what they
thought to be) a grievance to him but who finally only
asked for suffering and got it. However, Chuk Chung-
leung, No.1 maker of these confessions, dropped an old
black leather shoe which he was wearing on his left foot
and lost his revolver when he and the second European
grappled with each other and rolled down stairs, and that
was all.
On the day (Monday) following that on which we
punished the traitorous Ching, we attended school as
usual. Then we learned from the newspapers that the
traitorous Ching had in fact died on the spot a thing
which we were pleased to hear - and that of the two
meddlesome Europeans the first one, a White Russian, had
been seriously wounded and the second one, a Swiss, had
also died an un-natural death.
One month later the British Municipal
Authorities had four innocent Chinese brethren arrested in
a certain place.
These they alleged were suspects
concerning this case. We could not refrain from being
sympathetic with them in view of the grievous wrong done
to them, for the two of us only were the men who put
Ching to death. After the Ching case had occurred,
although the whole city of Tientsin was thrown into chaos,
we with our minds at ease had been attending school until
the end of June when the school closed for its summer
vacation.
We wanted to join another school; so on July
13th we embarked on the s.s. "Yochow" and proceeded direct
to Hong Kong reaching there on the 24th. We lived in the
house of a relative for about half a month and as we were