Getting Ready to Take Over: A
Tour of Inspection 'The Shanghai Provisional Court, erstwhile Mixed Court, if not'
ilyreanere" over bythe sown, mese, may be considered longer in the hands of the Norther nors, in that the formality of* absorbing these duties is but matter of time, Last Friday several Cantonese oticers, in nondescript uniforms, made an inspection of the promis and vouched for the fact thet fa change would be made in the per+ sonnel shortly, The former regime tax, Chief Inspr, Wheeler necom+ panied them.
During the last few days the court has not been functioning as in' the past. Tf cases of importance came up, the judges usually ree manded the ease or dismissed ity The reason for this has not been explained officially, 'According to local reports in semt+ official circles, it is highly probable that, shortly after' the beginning of the' week, a new set of judges will foceupy the Bench, There has been 10 relative position of fore After their inspection of the pre mises the Communist officials seemed. highly pleased with their surtout ings and expressed a hope that the pew regime would be functioning: before long.
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