Show Wants the Rod Restored The Shanghai Times editor says The jail has been well administered but Is fuller than It uhould be due I fear to tho abolition of the cangue and bamboo The ordinary criminal has no great objection to repeated short visits to the jail but shrinks from a repetition of corporal punishment punish-ment Punishment with tho bamboo is in vogue throughout China and here only has It by special edict been abolished We deprecate tho Chinese authorities making this settlement a field for experiment and will press for the reintroduction of this salutary salu-tary method of punishment |