Blue waters and green and the Far East today . ovincewith an unpronounceable and unspellable name wasassassinated while visiting a school, by its head-master and founder, a man of education and was believed to be part of an anti-monarchicalplot, for there is quite a party of that faith in assassin was arrested two days later and instantlybeheaded. His wife and daughters were sold intoslavery; his two sons above sixteen decapitated,and his two younger sons made eunuchs for the royalpalace. That is Chinese justice. By the way, I had nearly forgotten the Executionground wher
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . ovincewith an unpronounceable and unspellable name wasassassinated while visiting a school, by its head-master and founder, a man of education and was believed to be part of an anti-monarchicalplot, for there is quite a party of that faith in assassin was arrested two days later and instantlybeheaded. His wife and daughters were sold intoslavery; his two sons above sixteen decapitated,and his two younger sons made eunuchs for the royalpalace. That is Chinese justice. By the way, I had nearly forgotten the Executionground where Cantonese criminals are beheaded. Itis a long, narrow inclosure, in ordinary times a pot-tery. When there is head-chopping to be done thepots and shards are set one side and the official ex-ecutioner does his work. We met him, a placid,benign-faced, middle-aged man, who has himself be-headed more than a thousand men. Think of it!—asmany as thirty criminals have been decapitated therewithin an hour. When there is a big batch it takesEI48J]. CANTON several headsmen. Ah Kow explained that it wasbelly hard work, make him plenty much tired;that about four was the limit of a days work for oneexecutioner. The victim is forced to kneel, a manpulls the queue forward to expose the neck, the shortsword falls with a drawing motion, and the head rollson the ground. They never bungle it as they didwith Sir Walter Raleigh. It is clean-cut and September the thirty-one Kow Shing pirateswere beheaded there, and this narrow strip of groundhas soaked the blood of thousands. You see we areback in the Middle Ages here. Piracy still month ago a band of them seized an English trampand looted her, but let the crew go. I have some pic-tures of there things that are very realistic. I mayhave the happy fortune to see one of these fact, if I were a big gun I should be sure to, for theViceroy is a kindly man, and will have a couple ofheads chopped off any time to g
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