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...Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
Prosecutor Aung reviewed events leading to Dr. Seagrave's Aug. 15 arrest at his Baptist missionary hospital in the foothills near the China-Burma border. The assistant attorney general told how Captain Naw Seng, a leader of the Karen rebels, raided and occupied Namhkam. Aung said that Seagrave attended a dinner in honor of the rebel leader and permitted Naw Seng's forces free access to the hospital...
...prosecution witness, Colonel Khum Nawng, commander of the First Emergency Kachin Rifles, testified that Seagrave was plainly displeased when government forces reoccupied Namhkam and that the "doctor's attitude indicated that he had sympathies with Naw Seng." Khum Nawng solemnly told the court that he considered Seagrave a rebel sympathizer because the doctor never smiled...
...Young Sage was once a young rip. A precocious child, he knew 800 characters of Wen Li before he was three, had earned the nickname Shien-seng (the master) by the time he was five. In his teens Hu became disillusioned, turned to gloomy poetry and carousing, awoke one morning in jail for assaulting a cop while soused. Looking at his scratched face in a mirror, Hu recalled a proverb ("Heaven intended this material surely for some use"), vowed to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to the U.S. He did, and went to Cornell...
...Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches...