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Shooting the Emperor of China's cousin is not the dangerous feat that once it was. For one thing the "rightful" Boy Emperor, P'u-yi (alias Henry), is a deposed nobody who dwells under Japanese protection, has deplorably weak eyes, and looks for guidance to his fatherly British friend and former tutor. Dr. Reginald Fleming (TIME...
...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...
...Lord Chief Justice of _ England, Baron Hewart, heard last week in London the appeal of one Chung Yi-miao, a Chinese law student whom a lower English court had sentenced to hang for murdering his Chinese wife, also a young student...
Murderer Chung pleaded his own appeal before the Lord Chief Justice. When judgment was about to be pronounced, Chung Yi-miao leaned forward and cupped his hand behind his ear, in order not to miss a word...
...Murderer Chung Yi-miao was dragged protesting to his cell, meticulous observers noted that the Lord Chief Justice had mistakenly referred to him as "Miao"-apparently supposing that to be his surname. Of course Chinese surnames or "last names" come first, and the Lord Chief Justice should have said, "Chung is guilty," unless His Lordship desired to refer to the prisoner familiarly by his given name, which was Yi-miao, not Miao...