Teen Sing-uvea, newspaper proprietor, was charged with having priated and published or caused to be printed and published in the Chinese newspaper called the Kohteopao" acertain indecent article or paragraph.—Mr. Kirk, who appeared for the prosecution, that accused was the proj manager of the pa for bim by thi and was sold ina small shop in Shantang Rosd—Mr. Fessenden, who defended, ssid that the dete: admitted the publication but cli that he had merely copied the from a book which had been sold all over Obioa for years. Giles in his "Strange stories from a Chinese studio" used this book as ground-which put certain ideas just as badly s in the case of this story.—Mr. Kirk pointed out that choice extracts from Rabelais would never be allowed to be published in the columns of a foreign newspaper.—The Court reserved its decision until PAL lil assoc s) ara oaf ut 412
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