accused.
Det.-Sergt. Yorke gave evidence of the distribution of leaflets and said the police found accused's. quarters stocked with Bolshevik literature. The Chinese authorities had asked that accused be handed over to them as he had also been tributing pamphlets in Chinese territory.
Mr. Brown said accused admitted' distributing these circulars but he would call evidence to prove the man was of a very excitable and unbalanced' temperament and was, at tinies, scarcely responsible for his actions.
Two witnesses spoke to accused' being at times mentally deranged.
Mr. Brown submitted that justice would be met if accused were bound over and warned not to repeat the offence.
Det.-Sergt.. Yorke said it had now been ascertained that Canton was the centre of the Bolshevik intrigues. Accused had been in communication with leaders there as well as with Russians in Shanghai. He had_ been sending supplies of Bolshevik literature to schools in the interior.
Accused was bound over to keep the peace and' the men who had given evidence as to his mental condition ordered to file a bond for his good behaviour.
Sentexce of three nionths' imprisonment was imposed by the Mixed Court on Thursday on the: chauffeur who had been detained in connexion with the death of an elderly Chinese in a motor car collision on North Soochow Road recently.
Rear Admiral Casey B. Morgan, in a letter to Governor General Harrison, has fired the first gun in a movement to erect in Manila a monument to the late Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, and the man whose name to the Filipinos, as Governor Harrison expresses it, "means the beginning of a new chapter of freedom and the opportunity to lay the foundations of their own nationality."
Mr. A. J., Burke, a lawyer of Manila, died of apoplexy' after dining at.the Army and Navy Club there on October 5. Mr. Burke was about 52 years old. He was born in Ireland, but went to the United States advan early age. He practise ed law in Shanghai some years ago-and is said to have been largely responsible for the charges which ended in the request for the resign nation of Judge Wilfley, of the United States Court. About 1907 he went to Manila and opened law offices.
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