The Court of Consuls, consisting] lof Mr. E. S. Cunningham, Consul-General for the United States and Senior Consul, Mr. N. Aall, Consul-General for Norway, and Sir Sidney Barton, Consul-General for Great} Britain, on Tuesday heard the ca of the Hindu Merchants Club v. the Shanghai Municipal Council. "Mr. Tycho Wing appeared for the plain-time and Mr. G. H. Wright for the Shanghai Municipal Council. Mr. C, Whitamore acted as Clerk of Court.
The petition filed by the plaintiff, who occupy club premises at 19 North Szechuen Road, set forth that, an May 25, ewo police officers wrong. fully entered the premises at about] 5.30 pam, and remained upon the remises for a half-hour or thereabouts and made a search and removed from the club a quantity of newspapers. The police, while acting under instructions from or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, were not acting by the warrant or under the authority of any Court, The lub claimed $5,000 by way of damages for trespass and for wrongful conversion of property.
The respondents denied that the lentry was wrongful, but was by leave fof a member of the club. Certain police officers were invited by Lal Chand, a member of the clab to enter ithe premises and were conducted over ithe whole of the club by him and with) his permission removed six copies swe copies of a newspaper called the Meipur Khas Gazette Weekly," both printed in the Sindhi language, These newspapers subsequently were returned. A state of emergency ex: isted in the Foreign Settlement at the time and having reasonable and Probable grounds for suspecting that the premises were used for seditions [purposes and as a meeting place for persons who were conspiring to
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