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THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN.
GOLDEN BELLS THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY.'
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Certain Chinesa now in London are demanding that the value of two-sred golden, bells Tooted from the Temple of Heaven in Peking during the Boxer siy ing shall be restored to the temple sutheri- Lies They have traced the history of one of the balls from the night of its seizure in 1000 to the night when it was secretly melted down in India, six years later.
The Imperial City of Peking we off- cially given over to looting after its cap- ture, and for several days officers and men of the Allied troops carried away all the valuables they found in palaces and bous Two officers of Indian regiments, according to the Chinese investigators, made for the Temple of Heaven immedi stely the Outer City was entered, and Entered, and searched it from roof to basement.
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The priests had, however, removed the altar ornaments and the jewelled eyes of the gods, so that at first the officers found only bare walls of white marble and the quisite blue tiles above the shrines. They then descended from the temple precincts to an underground room, the floor of which was covered by dirt and odds and ends of no value.
One of them prodded a pile of rubbish with a barones and struck something metallic at the bottom. He discovered when the rubbish was cleared an szarmons golden bell carved with dragons and A second bell was sacred inscriptions similarly hidden in another corner. »
The officers set a guard at the temple entrance and returned during the night with thirty sepoys. The troopers trans- ported the golden balls, which weighed coveral hundred pounds, to their camp. where the two treasure hunters separabed, each with his own price. ht
One officer buried his golden lost in the ground for secrecy, but next morning his It was colonel heard of the raid and confiscated taken to India when the 'Boxer campaign the ball for the regimental mess.
was over,
The ball remained hidden for five years. in the house of a bank, manager, a friend of the officer who had looted it. The off- cer believed that it would fetch at least £100,000 if sold intact in London or Now York, but he dared not try to sell it for fear of discovery by the Chinese authori- ties
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The bank manager agreed to melt the gold, and himself performed this opera- tion in his compound during four succes sive nights. A firm of goldsmiths in Delhi paid £25,000 for the metal, which was finally distributed by bassar dealers in India and Burma. The investigatora were unable to discover what persons be sides the officer principally concerned shared in the purchase price
The interested Chinese now point to the special clause in the Versailles Tresty. whereby the ancient astronomical instru- menta looted by Count von Waldersen during the capture of Peking were re- turned to China, and demand that the. sacred bells, or their value, shall also be restored to the Temple of Heaven.-Daily Express.
MRS. BESANT AND SEDITION.
FAILURE IN A SLANDER ACTION.. Mrs. Annie Besant raised an action in the Scottish Court of Session against- the Daily Graphic for £1,000 damages, her complaint being that in an article entitled Unrest in India" it was stated that she had been interned by Lord Pentland because she refused to discontinue the advocacy of sedition. The case occupied Lord Anderson and a special jury for four days?
In summing up the case, Lord Ander- son said that a person who did public work must not be too thin skinned as regards what was said about her, but every public character was entitled to be protected, such as the present case, against an accusation of having been guilty of a serious crime. The pursuer said that it was falss that she had ever advocated sed tion in India. She had brought witnesses of the highest respec tability to say that she never did so, but on the contrary always did her bost to discountenance and disapprove of it' She also maintai: 1 that she had never been asked by rd Pentland to dis continue the advocacy of sedition. She complained about the publication in The Daily Graphic of an article written by a well-known journalist, Mr. Harold Cox, aid said that the injury, was done her immediately and directly in this country and indirectly she had also suffered is. India The word sedition ..to the ordinary man was the name of a crime, a serious crime like murder and robbery, though the word might be used in a
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they were bound to take the word in the ordinary and primary sense. There were two defences to the action. The defenders said that all they put down, in the article was merely fair comment.apon undisputed public facts, and in the London, Jaly. 19th. Mr. John B. second place that everything they put Kellay, of New York, has arrived at down was true. On the other hand, not Cores, after a remarkable voyage across A single witness had come into Court the Atlantic in his small schooner rigged to say that he ever heard fall from Mra yacht Diablesse Besant's lips one sedition expression. Diablesse is of 21 tons displacement, Proceedings had been taken against Mr and a trifle longer than Typhoon, the Besant under the Indian Press Act in 15-ton katch in which Mr. Washburn Nut ting, another American, made a similar
to. Cowes last year
1810. She forfeited her security and an voyage Tunkoon sailed 2.500 miles from
successful y tried to get back her money.
The jury, after an absence of an hour Nova Scotia, however, Diablesse has ac and ten minutes, retumed the following verdict: It is the opinion of the jury, complished a non-stop run of about 4,000 miles from New London, Connecticut, in taking into consideration the period, and 23 days. Her motor was only made usa circumstances existing at the time the ef for four days in all articles appeared in New India, that Mr. Kelley was accompanied by his they tended to promote unrest and the defenders were justified in calling them peditious. The jury themfore, unan mously find for the defenders.
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the little easel. encountered th and werd gales soon
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