There are one or two pointe in the startling story of the German shells case, as disclosed at the French Court on Monday afternoon, on which the attention of most readers will at once fasten. In the first place, what is Mr. Morscher doing in this galéret His business is to play the harp in the Municipal Orchestra, varied occasionally by the violoncello. That he should make use of the favoured position he occupies to take part in a business which, to put it at ite mildest, is subversive of the peace and good order of the Settlement is highly reprehensible, and will, we trust, be visited by the Council in the manner it deserves, In the second place one would like to know how the shells got to 32 Yangtezepoo Road. They were not manufactured there; and it cannot but be regretted that they might not have been traced earlier, which would have saved the trouble of finding, now, the 400 shells that are missing. The most striking feature of the whole case, however, is the evidence of the close touch prevailing bhetween Nielsen and the German Consulate—so close indeed as to Teave no practical doubt that the Consulate engineered the whole plot. Something may be excused in, at least expected ¥rom, young
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