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Mixed Court Two more men made their uppearance at the Mixed Court on Tucaday morning on a charge of iting mill workers to strike. The accused were Vu Tso-woo, a foreman, and Daung Ling-sung, a they were charged with and with posting notices in the Oriental Cotton Mill, 36 Yangtszepoo Road, which were linble to cause a breach of the pence. The charge was made under the special police law.
'Mr. M. Hamilton, American As-segoer, sat with Magistrate Loh, ud Mr. E. T. maitland, Prosecuting Solicitor, appeared' for the police.
Mr. Maitland said that the second aceuved was arrested as he was fuying to fix pamphlets to the walls of the Oriental Cotton Mill and, after his arrest, he said that they. aad been given te him by the first cused. The pamphlets called on the workers to strike and they referred to a coolie who was dismissed for bad work. This man's name was Eu Zung-foh and he was to the pam) read extracts and produced by the second acthe dismissed coolie and the latter's mother. The Court would reo, Mr. Maitland said, that it was Udliberately fabricated to cause trouble.
Det.-Sgt, Telfer said the pamph-' lets were found in the compound of the mill. Tae second accused made his starrment voluntarily. Witness interviewed the dismissed cootie, who was in Court to give evidence.
Eu Zung-foh said that he had been employed in the Oriental Cotton Mill as a sweeping coolie. One of the foreigners in the mill told [him that hig work was tog bad and. the other boys tried to strike but witness tid them to go on with their work. Witness got tis wages which were due without any trouble. He was never beaten in the mill, for had he told anyone that he had been. He could not say why the first accused should have written the pamphlet about him.
Mr. Maitland, summing up, caid that the mill' proprietors " were quite willing to vake the second acused on again og they considered that he was only ignorant and so they asked that he should be re-eased en personal bon! but, if the Court found the frst prisoner guilty, the police would ask for his expulsion from the Settlement fand that any sentence imposed should be suspended.
'The Court ordered the release of the younger prisoner on his own bond but sent the elder man' to prison for three months sind issued jan order that he should be expelled when his term expires,
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