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Show TLMERIGAN'SDEATH AVENGED BY GUNS COMMANDER OF BRITISH WARSHIP WAR-SHIP TRAINS GUNS ON CITY TO COMPELL ATTENTION Two Chinese Junkmen Executed In Public for Murder of Man Employed Em-ployed by English Concern I Pekin, The commander of the Britist warship Cockshafer by threatening threat-ening to bombard city of Wanshien compelled the Chinese authorities to honor Edwin G. Hawley an American killed by junkmen, and to execute by shooting in public two officials of the junkmen's guild. Officials of Wanshien have promised prom-ised to take all steps to see that foreigners for-eigners are not molested hereafter. Hawley,' whose home was formerly in New Jersey, had been in China for fifteen years employed by a British firm. His company was engaged in river transport of wood and oil by steamers, and the junkmen resented the intrusion of machinery into their leisurely river life and livelihood. So they beat Hawley to death on the beach. The commander of the gunboat Cockshafer trained his guns on the city and required the highest Chinese military authorities to walk in mock humility with the American's funeral cortege, after which two of the leaders of the junkmen's guild were escorted to the spot where Hawley was killed and were shot to death while the populace looked on.- United States Consul Clarence J. Spiker reported that the inhabitants and Chinese military authorities at Wanshien appeared to be "thoroughly "thorough-ly awed" by this example of summary sum-mary western justice and had given assurance the offense would not be repeated. |