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Show CHINESE NOTION OF JUSTICE i Avencing a Murder by Wiping Out the Entire Family of the Slayer, Pel. ll.', China, decently u soldier-seivnnt soldier-seivnnt of tJeli. Wu CMug-tuuf, a former garrison commissioner at Nun-yung. Nun-yung. Minimi, and protege of Oeu. Chung Tsi-lln. Infuriated by his mas- ' ',er's censure and maddened by drink, , ran umuck and killed the general, his brother 41 nil his chauffeur. Ho then attempted (n escape, but found himself him-self truped and Jmueil Into the river from the ex-Cermau bund. He was shot dead when he rose to the surface, and when his body was recovered It Is reHirted to have been dismembered with h view to burying fragments of Jt with each of his victims. All this was bad enough, hut the latest developments of the cuse seem tu cull for something more thuu censure. cen-sure. It uppears that den. Chang Tao-Uu Tao-Uu Intrusted the arrangements for the burial of (lencnil Wu. nnd the uenglug of his murder, to Hen. Id Fiiugcheii. The latter has ordered the urn-si and transportation 10 Tientsin of all the murdeier's family, which compilses his obi mother, his widow and three children, and apparently the Intention Is to shoot them In cold blood, to placate the soul of the murdered mur-dered general. Tills Is Justice according to the IiIciih of the Kuper-ttichuns. Their armed coolies mm rob urn! murder nnd destroy des-troy to their heart's coiiteur, 11s long as they coullne their adlvltles to civilians. Their usual reward for such exploits Is the prompt payment of arrears of salary, and couipleto Immunity Im-munity from punishment. Iturely In uny attempt mude to bring the looters unil murderers to Justice. Hut when one of the trnper-tuchun's proteges Is murdered by a 1 chillier, the crime must he dealt with in unrestrained savagery. |