For a long time the Germans and the Russians have been befriended in Canton by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who is having several of them as personal and political advisers. A German is being-engaged by the Canton muaiveipality as adviser and another by the police in Canton as instructor of the military police force. Both the Russians and the Germans formerly maintained consulates in Sham een, the Canton foreign concession, but' these buildings since the war have gone into the hands of private owners.
In the case of the Germans in Canton, the Canton Government is forsaking the legal jurisdiction over, them as was once assumed in the ease of M.M. de Corbat during the regime of General Chen Chiung-ming in the latter part of 1922, when this German was accused of being con-' nected with an explosion of a bomb in front of a Canton newspaper' office which killed several persons. 'The accused was tried and freed by the Canton District Court. 'The German firm of Reuter, Broeckelmann & Ca. is bringing' a suit for $16,552.48 against a Chinese through.
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