consulate general named Ch'en Hou-ju, whose French was excellent, managed to persuade the governor to lower the tax for poor families to US $ 50 that they avoided going to jail.
直到兩年後，中華民國總領事陳厚儒到任，說服大溪地總督，把家境貧困者降為五十美金，許多人才免去牢獄之災。