The manager of the Mei Chang Iron Works, 185 Kwenming Road, was brought before Judge Deputy-Burdett in the Provisional [Court on Wednesday morning, charged with manufacturing field gun elevators in the Settlement.
Mr. P: W. Goldring, Assistant Prosecuting Solicitor, was present] {for the Commissioner of Police.
Det.-Sgt.. Williamson stated that, acting on information received, the police went to accused September 28 and seized an clevatmachine alleged to be for the lifting of big field guns. were four of these machines in lunt the police seized only one (which was produced in court). The mach-the 22nd Nationalist Army.—They were found hidden under accused's bed. Accused, eaid witness, had no ligence to manufacture arms and, even if he had one, he could not] manufacture such in the Settlement, The accused, Woo Bei-kung, said] he was owner of the works and that the machines were to be used as elevators in a silk filature in. Szechuan, not ax gun elevators. He denied that he knew they were to be used as the latter. They had been ordered by the Szechuan filature and $60 bargain money had been paid. As the balance hud not been recei ed, witness kept the property in his works.
The case was remanded to enable two expert witnesses, one for the prosecution and one for the defence, to testify.
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