Readers will not have forgotten ithe case of Mr. Scherer, the German at Mukden, who was sentenced last June to seven years' hard labour by the Chinese District Court for, as it was alleged, causing. the death of a Chinese boy, who had called rude names after 'Mr. Scherer jumped out of asha and ran after the boy who, in running away, tripped and fell into a ditch, and' injured his head, not, it would really seem, at all seriously. However, several days afterwards, he died. There is not a shadow of evidence that Mr. Scherer ever touched the lad and the circumstances of the ease point-very strongly to false witness Jand a gross miscarriage of justice. An appeal was heard in the follow. ing September, when the sentence was reduced to three years and two months. Now the sentence has been quashed altogether. The "Me churia Daily News," of February id Incidentally. all inst him and it is believed that only offence was that he had distributed the accumulated _pension fund to the employees it. belonged to, thereby keeping i fof Bolshevik claws. It Jdistinetly stated that M, Ostroumoft was to benefit by the New Year amnesty proclaimed by Marshal ian Chi-jui. Yet he is till in Jead. Why?
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