The further hearing of the case fin which a cook and three boatmen are charged with trafficking in firearms, on June 16, was continued in the Provisional Court, last Friday, before Judge Hsiung and Mr. Shi mize, Senior Consul's Deputy.
Evidence given at the previous hearing went to show that 18 Mauser pistols were found in a house in Yoong Eu Li alleyway, elf North Szechuen Road. It was tated that they were the property of a Japanese who had offered them for sale at $96 each, and that he Believed they were being purchased by the Nationalist authority When the hearing was resumed last Friday, Judge Hsiung said that the Court had received a document from the Woosung & Shanghai Gendarmerie Commissioner to the effect that the arms as specified in the case were ordered by the Nationalist Government, lad never dealt in fircarma before.
Witness first met accused on Jure 412, when he was introduced by a man named Li, who recommended him for the purpose of buying arms.
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