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...Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish" Chinese who had been making faces, hurling stones and obscenities from the supposed safety of the International Settlement...
...Jewish quarter of the city afire last June, were called by the Greek prosecutor "guilty of excesses which are a blot on civilization"-but he asked acquittal for six of the blotters and only four months imprisonment for the other two. Promptly the Greek jury, unwilling to punish even two blotters, acquitted all of them...
...Passed a bill by Missouri's Cochran to punish kidnappers and blackmailers who use the mails for extortion with a $5,000 fine, 20 years imprisonment; sent it to the Senate...
...Stock Exchange, ever diligent to discover and punish violators, has suspended two of its members within recent months for unethical trading...
...Empowering the Government to punish ''unlawful instigation" not only by arresting the instigators but by confiscating their property...