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Show ICH1NESE INSULT AMUWDHAN AMERICAN CONSUL IS APPEALED) TOO, TO GAIN FREEDOM FROM JAIL Protesting Against Imposition of Tax, Mrs. H. L. Decker Is Grossly Abused by Hongkong Officers Hongkong, Mrs. Harvey L. Decker, Deck-er, wife of the manager of the Canton Can-ton City Transportation company,' was last Saturday subjected to rough handling, jostling and jeering and, finally to detention in a police station sta-tion cell by a force of twenty armed and unarmed Chinese policemen of Canton, according to word received here. ; Mrs. Decker, who is in delicate health, had gone to the police station sta-tion in connection with a demand for payment of a police tax alleged to be due from her husband on the ground that he is engaged in business ini Canton. Mrs. Decker was arguing, that she and her husband should be exempt from the police tax, because the Canton City Transportation com-, pany is a foreign corporation, when some of the police thrust a revolver against her side, dragged her out, of iier motorcar and carried her into a barred cell, Mrs. Decker endeavored to com- tunicate with the American consul general, but was prevented by police officials until, after nearly two' hours of molestation, her husband was informed of his wife's predicament predica-ment and invoked the assistance of the American consul, who went to the police station, and secured her release. |
