"1 must protest must emphatically against the decision of the! Judge. No evidence wi shown to the Court that the accused had! Tommunistic affiliation: Tt appears that the accused was arrested bya man in Nationalist soldier's uniform without " proper warrant aiid without the assistance of: the International Police, which, in fact, is mere kidnapping, which would have succeeded if the International Police would not have appeared on the scene.
A letter was Feceived later frou Gen. Yang Hu requesting the Provisional Court: to hand him over.
As I stated above, no evidence was given! and I suspect that, at the back of this, is an-attempt at extortion.
"Accused has had a pawnshop in the Settlement for 82 years amd, as far as the Police could tell the Court, they knew nothing' detrimental against him. The accused the representative of the Pawnshop Guild which, in my opinion, is very indicative..
"(The decision to hand this man over to the outside authorities oii' no evidence whatever tends to undermine the authority of the} International Settlement.
(Signed) H. Bos Netherlands Deputy."
Another vigorous protest was; Jodged by Mr. H. Bos, the Nether-Jands Deputy, against a judgment of Judge Ling Pinu, in the Shanghai Provisional Court on Tuesday morning in connexion with an applica~ tion by the Nationalist military' authorities for the extradition of one Ong Tah-yuen, 68, the owner of pawnshop, who was suspected by them of being a Communi Det,-Inspr. Conduit informed the: Court that accused was arrested on Monday morning in Foochow Road by a detective attached to Gen. Yang Hu's army, Accused had resided in the Settlement for 32 years and, during that time, had owned 8 pawnshop at 69 Hoopeh Road.
Accused said he was a business aman and had no connexions with political partie Tsang Li-nyi, a judge of the Special Military Court, said that recused was suspected by the mitix tary authorities to be connected with the Communist Party and asked that he should be handed over.
Mr. L. C.-Yang, defending, said) the Chinese authorities had no proof, that accused was a Communist and, before the Court could hand him over, the Chinese authorities must! prove that he was a Communist, Bo far, they had shown no proof} at all
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