The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-05
Made the Paper Too Hot for the
Old Town to Hold it
Without Pain.
Volcanic Attacks on the Local Officials in De-
fence of the imprisoned Reform Editors
Bring the Gallant Editor to Grief.


Volcano Marshall is again an extinct
crater in journalism. AS in Honolu-
iu, so in Shanghai, the lava was too
hot and it melted the cone. A letter
from Phil. B. Danky, who with Her.
bert M. Ayres went from here to join
Marshall on the Shanghai Times staff,
to his friend NJ. T. Simonton, states
that Marshall has resigned, by request
of the management from the editorship
planned, in his picturesque way, that
Marshall had been raising more plu-
tonic fire than the owners of the paper
could stand for.
Files of the Shanghai Times received
by the America Maru leave no room
for doubt as to the nature of Volcano
MarshalPs eliminating outbreak. AS
might be conjectured, it was in con-
nection with the agitation to save the
necks of the Chinese Reform editors.
In the Times of August Z, the follow
ing cablegram was displayed in Gothic
type, double column:
LONDON, August 6.--Prime Minis
ter Balfour, replying to question by
Mr. H. Norman, said that Sir Ernest
Satow the British Minister to China,
had been geographically instructed
that the Shanghai (Supao) prisoners
should not be surrendered to the Chi
nese government"
Several interviews bearing upon this
dispatch were obtained by the Times,
one with the British Consul General, r.
W. Mansfield, concluding as follows,
with the question and answer quoted in
Gothic type:
Us it true that Assessor Giles gave
to the police. money sent to him by the
Taotai for the police, for arresting the
Supao prisoners?'
.'.Yes. $500 was sent, but it was re-
tined TO the IdOtal
I'm concluding the interview Mr.
Mansfield said: I consider that most
unjustifiable allusions have been made
by your paper with reference to Mr.
Giles, and you may tell your editor
So'"
Then follows an editorial resume OF
the history of the affair, occupying the
greater part of the remainder of the
front page of the Times. Herbert
Melton Ayres could not resist the in
spiration to rhyme and column OF the
space is taken up by him with eleven
limpins stanzas of which the first Is
here given as a fair sample:
Behind a PRISONS bars confined,
They passed long weeks away
Apostles of an advanced mind
Servants of Progress, they.
None but the 'only" William II
Marshall can be credited with the his
torical sketch, which opens thus:
Never was a more unholy PROPOSE
ton attempted than the one by Whlch
it was sought to railroad the Supao
Journalists to ignominious decap1tatlon
And had it not been for the efforts OF
this paper, the scheme would have sue
ceeded.
1T was the vigorous fight made by
this journal, in face of conspiracy
in which the Shanghai Taotai, the
American Consul General, Mr.. John
Goodnow, the British Consul General
R. w. Mansfield, the British Assessor
Bertram Giles, and others, were the
conspirators, that has caused premier
Balfour to act and to act in the cause
OF Justice that murder shall not be
charged against this Settlement. The
history of the case is as follows: On
July 1st, the journalists. Sung Taoh
sub, Sing Yuen Sun, Leong Tso Tsui
Sun Kee Foo. and Tsung Ping Ling
were brought before the Mixed Court
Mr.. Sun sitting as Magistrate and Mr.
Bertram Giles as the English Assessor
on warrants countersigned by j. Good
now, Senior Consul and issued by the
request of the Taotai. who received his