Cheng. submitted to Pre: dent Wang "Ching-wei late night resignation from. their respective posts as Minister and Vice-Minister of Judicial Administration, "In their petition it is pointed out that the ease of the Noulens, who have been indicted on charges Of subversive action against. the Republic, attention, is "handied will, therefore, have great, bearing on the prestige of the Chinese judiciary: Serious obstacles, however, have to be faced. As they are not in a position to deal satisfactorily with such diffi culties, it would be better for them to make way for more competent men so a5 to avid leaving any stain on the reputation of the country's judicial administration, In an interview, Dr. Lo explain-fed the reasons for the delay in the, preliminary investigation of the ense which seems to be the main *|eause for criticism in certain quarters.
Dr. Lo pointed out, in the first place, that the accused were handed over to the Nanking Civil Court by the. military authorities only six months ago. The delay in the procedure after the surrender of the accused to the Court is attributable primarily to the following reason: (1) There is a vast number of docaments which has to be carefully examined. Moreover as they are in different foreign languages, transation alone proved to be a termi able task, (2) Shortly after th case was transferred to Soochow, the Shanghai hostilities broke out. As the hostilities were spreading to Soochow, it became impossible to summon witnesses and proceed with the investigation, (3) As the investigation has been conducted in Jeamera in the interest of the State, delay was vinavoidable.
Regarding the hunger strike, Dr.
ited out that as such a device has been resorted to obvious-of|ly for the purpose of evade ig. the Tegal process, the Court will refuse to be inftwenced by such conduct and is certain to have public "nin-ion behind it-—Kuo Min.
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