Show CHINESE INSULT AMERICAN WOMAN AMERICAN CONSUL IS APPEALED TOO TO GAIN FREEDOM FROM JAI JAIL L Protesting Imposition of Tax Mrs H. H L. L Decker Is Grossly Abused by Officers Mrs Harvey Harvcy L. L Decker Deck Deck- of or the Canton Canton Can Can- er wife of tic the manager ton City Transportation company was last Jast Saturday subjected to rough handling jostling and jeering and finally to detention jn a n police station station sta sta- station sta- sta tion cell ceU 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 station station sta 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 in Canton Mrs Decker was was- arguing that she and her husband should be exempt from the police tax because the Canton City Transportation company company com corn pany is a foreign corporation when some ome of the police thrust a revolver against her side dragged her out of her motorcar and md carried her into a barred cell ceI Mrs Decker endeavored to com corn with the American consul genera general but was va prevented by police officials until after nearly two hours of molestation her husband was informed of his wife's predicament predicament ment and invoked the assistance of the American consul who went to the police station and secured her release |