After considerable difficulty in finding an interpreter for _the accused, who could speak no Ens lish, Mandavin or Cantonese, only Dutch, the accused gave his name and age. He said that he born in Meihsien, Kuangtung, and went to Batavia' when he was jehud three years old. not know who took him there but he was told that it was his parents He only had a slight recollection of hie parents because they died when hho was young and he was adopted into another family. His real parents were Chinese and did not come from a foreign country. He had been to Canton in his teens but] did not visit Meihsien.
When he left Java, said accused, he applied for and obtained a Chinese passport, as a Chinese citizen, from the Chinese Consul-General Batavia, He did not know from [which part of Methsien he came, a: he was a child when he left. He did not know anything about Meihsien. He was not a Dutt citizen, nor was he naturalized. Hi grandparents and parents were ful blooded Chinese. He was not born in the Dutch East Indies, nor haul he ever assumed that he was a Dutch citizen. He made no claim: to Dutch citizenship and, since com ing to China, he never had registered with the Dutch Consulate.
Accused denied that he told the Chinese detective that he was born in Java and that he was a Dutch' citizen. He claimed at the time of hai, said that the statement put in his arrest, and ever afterwards, that) was a genuine, certified copy of an official statement at the Bureau.
It-was correct in every present.
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Chinese, born in Me hsien, Kuangtung. "He did not leave Java because he had swindled huge sums of money but because he! to' where accused was born.—Dr. Mej_ answered that it was usual in Chinese documents to refer to suffered heavy financial losses owing }to bad business conditions. Further} }questioned by the Assessor, aroused
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