Finger-prints Taken and Handed to Chinese Police His photograph and finger-pr token, as with all who are expelled from the Settlement or who serve sentence, Comrade Dosser, Soviet representative and agitator, was es-carted by armed Municipal police t2 the headquarters of the Shanghai! jand Woosung Constabulary last Fri day morning. Comrade Dosser was there handed over to the Chinese loffcials, who sent him to the cells under guard of four Fengtien' soldiers with bayonets fixed. The sentence of expulsion from thy Settlement by Mixed Court order was thus formally executed.
It will be recalled that Dosser and is companion, Mme. Filipova, were arrested by the Hongkong police before they were permitted to land and shipped back to Shanghai, where they were taken into custody on the arrival of the P. & 0.
Mantua. At the Mixed Court Mme.
Filipova was released, but Comrade Dosser was bound over for trial, Greater interest was added the Dosser case by the arrest of Dr. Fortunatoff, attached to the Shanghai Soviet' Consulate, arrested in the act of handing bribe of $10,000 in Chinese American notes, to a Russian con stable employed' in the police. The constable in return for the money was to declare that a certain docu-official capacity, was a forged paper prepared by his superiors. When Fortunatoff decamped legal interest died out more or less in Dose though public opinion naturally declared Doster, as well as Fortunatoff, guilty all the more vigorously.
'Two weeks ago on application by Maitland, potice prosecutor, the Mixed Court' at the conclusion of the trial, ordered Comrade Dosser to. be expelled. A stay of execution for 14 days was granted. Last Fri-! day morning Dr. Fischer, counsel for defence, filed an application to set' aside the expulsion order but Messrs, Whitamore and Zao refused the request, ordering that the said application should be brought to their attention at a special hearing. The Court order. should be The formal order is as follows:
Defendant will be handed over to the Chinese authorities to-day (Friday, July 31) in accordance with the judgment. Application may be made and a day set aside for special hearing as early as convenient.
Dr. Fischer in his brief declared that (1) the decision of the Court. is erroneous, (2) that the Court acted ultra vires, (3) that the applicant is a Soviet citizen and such cannot be expelled, and that the Court has no jurisdiction over the applicant in accordance with the Provisional Treaty between China and Russia.
Police officials, after applying the usual routine procedure (as related above), escorted Comrade Dosser to Chinese police bureau.
Dosser put on $1,000 Bail by Procarater's Court Zinovii Dosser, was brought before Mr. Tao, Associate Procurator, at the Shanghai District Court' on Saturday morning for preliminary; hearing.
No evidence was taken, but the Court ordered: Comrade Dosser to {pat up bail in the sum of $1,000, pending a later hearing. This was immediately secured and Dosser was released. He is now said to be living in a hotel at Woosuny Mr. Sun Shao-kang, Chief Di trict Procurator, has gone to S [chow to interview the Procurat General and to receive instructions from the Kiangsu Higher Pr vincial Court regarding this man's disposal.
The Soviet Russian Consul-General paid an official call on Gen. Shing Shi-tien on Wednesday afternoon when we understand that the Dosser case was also brought un but the General refused to con-lider the affair, saying that the matter was now in the hands of the law courts. interesting legal aspects of the trial. (Smiles), The Assessor—It is unnecessar} for you to make any statement} De. Fischer.
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