Alleged Purchases for the South:
Salutary Sentences in French Mixed Court Dr. Max Kindler and E. Oldenburg appeared before Judge Crepin and Magistrate Nieh in the French Mixed Court on Tuesday morning to answer charges of illegal trafficking in arms in the French Concession. They pleaded guilty and the scntences imposed were based upon their own statements. Oldenburg was given 15 months imprisonment er a fine of $2,000, and upon payment of this amount was released yesterday afternoon, Kindler, who acted as middle man only was fined $400 and was released on the bond of his lawyer that the fine would met. The arms and munitions were confiscated by the Police.
This is the conclusion of a story which opened with the information given by a French detective that two Cantonese officers were trying to buy arms for the southern. army. "hey wera carefully watched and when Dudley Warner delivered six pistols to these men the trio was arrested. Warner has already been fined $100 Gold in the U. 8. Court. On information given by the three men arrested, the depository of the ammunition and arms. was found ba at 30 Weihaiwei Road, the home of Oldenburg, who was taken into custody; and Kindler, who arranged the meeting between pur chaser and dealer, was also arrested The terms of the agreement were 3180 for each Barabellum pistol with 100 rounds of ammunition and $150 for the Mauser rifles with 100 rounds of cartridges.
Yang Tse-hong, the first Cantonese officer involved, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and his interpreter, another Cantonese officer, Song Ming-fon, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, both sentences, however, commutable to fines.
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