Some time ago the Provisional Court sentenced a gang of armed robbers. One was setitenced to death and the others to imprisonment for life for a murder in the Yangtszepoo district. One of the accused appealed and his appeal was quashed, but now the Nationalist Government step forward and demand that the ease be re-tried.
Mr. Stevens, the Senior Consul's Deputy, on Thursday filed a strong protest. The protest endorses. the remarks of Mr. P. W, Goldring, Assistant Police Prosecutor, who describes the action of the Nanking Government as an absolute travesty of justice, and an insult to the Court, which must have been done with the deliberate intention of annoying the Court.. The protest states:—
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