The ease in which Ocn Khengn, over whose nationality" there had ' been considerable disagreement, is charged with the misappropriation of 1,100,000 gould guilders, in Java, last year, came up in the Provisional Court on Tues-dey afternoon before Judge Liang and Mr. H, Bos, the "Netherlands Consular Oficial, It will be recalled that accused was alleged to have secured the money in connection with the sals of a large quantity of pepper, the prosecution claiming that, under heaps of pepper, he placed' wooden boxes and other things to make the look larger than they actually were, Warrants were issued by the authorities in the Dutch Eagt Indies. for his arrest and these were counter signed by the Netherlands Con-late-General here, it having. been Tearned that Ocn had come to China and was in Nanking. At the request of the: Dutch authorities, the former International Mixed Court issued a warrant for accused and he was subsequently arrested in the summer of 1925, The question of his nationalit occupied a number of hearings, the. Dutch authorities claiming that he was a Netherlands subject, "ho having been born in the Dutch} East Indies of Chinese ps had been naturalized there, and lives there all of his life. Accused denied these allegations and said that he was born in Kuangtung and that, he had gone to the Dutch Eaxt} Indies during his childhood. real parents, he said, had died, and he was brought up an uncle and others whom the Dutch authorities claimed were his parents, He had never returned to his native place in Kuangtung.
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