The following stron protest. rade in the Provisional Court Br. Van den Berg, Senior Consul's Deputy, in connection with the rehearing of a case which had been ordered by the Kiangsu Provincial "Lendore the renova remarks made Braet cape in gonmection wht tense in which, the. Provincial" Govern Soh rontuad io approve, the fionont
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Counsel for the defendants was quite right in asserting that what fare referred to in the said articles 358 and 224 as offences the prosecution of which may be instituted only on complaint of the injured are one and the same thing, no difference between the word is,' used in. the former article and the words may be' in the latter. The difference is purely due to the carelessness of the translator, who probably used words indifferently. In the Chinese text, no such distinction is, or could be, made.
Uhut'(e) Prelude, could have had any part In this action, Tam, therefore, Atm Joss to understand these fareien! Thatructions of the Kiangsu Provincial Government "which oblige this" Court the Police to waste. their wrong in his assumption that, la the present ease, the alleged offence is of such a nature,
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