Shanghai, March 1.
Before G. W. Krxa, Esq., Police Magistrate.
The Yangtsze Insurance Case.
The defence was opened in the case in which the Yangtaze Insurance Association, Ld., are charged with trading with the enemy.
Mr. 8. H. MoKean appeared for the prosecution and Mr. R, N. Macleod for the defence.
Mr. Macleod pointed out to his Worship that the charge against the defendants was one of insuring goods of the enemy liable to capture. Since the last hearing and during an adjournment of about two weeks, the defendanta had made inquiries, which they considered necessary, at Hankow, with a view to supplying themselves with the information necessary to assist his Worship, and they had made use of the time to obtain much information upon the other transactions referred to in the other charges. As he had anticipated, the adjournment was not by any means too long as only recently the reports from Hankow were rcceived. It appeared from the evidence already before the Court—as far as that evidence went—that the defendants insured certain goods, which—again so far as the evidence went—appeared to have been the property of Messrs. Carlowitz Ca., that they insured—those goods on a voyage from Hankow to New York against war risks and that the goods were carried in two British ships He might say at once that the material which he had been able to obtain did not enable him to odd, so far as the transaction in question was concerned, anything useful, or indeed anything substan. tial at all with regard to the transection. He was unable to assist his Worship with any further evi-
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