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Show MERCHANT ENDURES TORTURE IN MANCHURIA Arrested as a Spy He Is Robbed and Terribly Maltreated. Mal-treated. I ICTORIA, B. C, Jan. S Mall advices from Hongkong state that Joseph Erneat Lie. Id en n Hongkong merchnnl who w;m Imprisoned In Siberia for twelve months und brutally treated on suspicion of being g spy In the -ervlre of the Japanese, has been released and Is returning to Hongkong. Hong-kong. Charged Selling Plans. Ooddes went fr.-m Hong'kong to Mukden Muk-den to trade during the war having ob-talm ob-talm -l permission from the Russians, then at New t'hwang, and after reporting hlH arrival at Mukden he was missed It seems he was arrested and charged with selling plans of the Port Arthur fortifications forti-fications to the Japanese. Robbed of Everything. His papers were torn up and he was robbed i ll everything he had excepting his trousers, shirt and stockings, all the clothing i. ft hirn In th. Manchurlao winter win-ter He was in tlfteen different prisons and In one wr.s told he was to be shot and each morning for ten days told him his execution wua postponed Counsel Procures Release. At the Inquest, which was held today, was flogged with leather straps and urge, t ,s f,, finally BOt a letter to the British VI.-e-Cc.nsul, who procured his release. |