Lukhmanoff Fined $500 and Promises to Apologize At the Mixed Court on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr. Kuan Chun, Chinese Magistrate, and Mr. A, D. Blackburn, British Assessor, Dimitri Lukhmanoff appeared to answer a charge of criminally libelling one Leonid F. Kompanion. Both are Russian citizens living in Shanghai, The Courtroom was crowded with Russians interested in the case.
Mr. S. H. McKean appeared to prosecute, and Messrs. 8, Fessenden and F. J. Schuhl acted for the defence.
The formal charge against defendant was that he "did publish or cause to be published at Shanghai on January 23, 1921, in a Russian newspaper circulating in Shanghai and elsewhere in China and in Vladivostok and known as 'The Shanghai Life' certain articles entitled 'Enough Falsehood,' 'Mysterious Russian Steamer' containing matter calculated to injure the said L. Kompanion and fothers therein named."
Mr. McKean said he wished it to be clearly understood that there was no vindictiveness on the part of the prosecution in bringing about this charge. He had been approached by the opposing counsel with a view to shortening the proceedings as far as possible and had arrived understanding on certain terms contained in the following letter
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