strong protest against the verdict of the Court was lodged in the Provisional Court on Saturday, when two Chinese were fined $10 each for distributing pamphlets of
workers of 'a Japanese mill in the antidapanese "nature, to "the Pootoo district on June 15. Mr. Hasegawa, Senior Consul's Deputy, added the following rider on the charge sheet "Decency forbids me making any comment on the facts of this cas but T believe it is only right, in discharging my. duties as Senior Consul's Deputy, to point out that, to take such a lenient view of an offence of this Kind as the judge has done, is extremely detrimental to the maintenance of peace and zood order in the Settlement. "It Should be noted that the pamphlets contained anti-Japanese writings."
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