Two Japanese Sentenced by Nagasaki Court News has been received in Shanghai to the effect that the two Japanese seamen who were alleged to have been concerned together in the assault on the Chinese hawker, Chen Ah-dong, on. deard the str, Manti Mara on May have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment by the Nagasaki District Court, to which institution they were transferred after a pre Jiminary trial in the local Japanese Consulate-General.
K, Kido, chiot mate of the steamer, was sent to prison for four years and F, Fujima, the dbo'sun, was given two years! im~ prisonment, It will be recalled that Chen Ah-dong died on board the steamer, which was chartered by the Kamashita Kisen Kai and loud protests were made which, for a time, looked as though they would turn into an anti-Japanese movement over what was alleged Yo be a murder, A demand was made that a Chinese court should hear the ease, The defence was that Chen was found stealing articles from the men's quarters and, during a chase which ensued, hho fell into a held and was killed, 'Negotiations, which are being conducted by the company through official sources with the deceased' family with regard to compensation, fare going on very satisfactorily and fan early and amicable settlement ie understood to be in sight.
In is understood that the Kamo. sluts Ca. has offered to pay the family. of Chen Ab-dong the sum of 3,000 yen as compensation, The family, we under stand, are desirous of accepting this, but agitators are threatening then with all sorts of punishment if they ome to any agreement with the Japanese company.
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