nce of Judge: New President's Lawyers Angry of the officials of the Court or any Deputies or to the Consular Body, until the 11th, when, at 11.45, he handed the order to Mr. J. Wheeler, Registrar of the Court.
The confusion in the organization lof the Court to which such an order must give rise is easily imagined. Different rooms are assigned to the cases of different Police Stations; and, with the number of cases to be disposed of daily, elaborate arrang> ments must be made beforehand as to which rooms will deal with whic Room No. 6 is reserved for eases coming from West Hongkew, W: Fide, and Yangtszepoo, fruitful dis tricts. Naturally, it was quite impossible between 11.45 am. on August 11 and 9 am, on August 13 to shift all these cases to different rooms, to notify all persons concerned and generally to re-arrange the whole police organization of the Court.
When Mr, Van den Berg: arrive and found that Judge Kuh was no' to appear on the plea of the room having been closed, he did not attempt to sit in the technical sense of the word, as, under the Rendition 'Agreement, he has no right to do t0,. He did, however, go into Court, and ordered a remand in the eae' that should have been heard as the only thing possible to do. In some of these cases the police point. fed out that the accused _person* should not be kept in gaol or in custody and recommended that they he let out on bail. In these eases, the Police endorsed'
The Chinese Explan: fons Two explanations have been ven he Chinese for the closing. n No. 6, Judge Kuh told our reporter that it was due to the scarcity of Judges consequent resignations following the evict of Judge Loo H.ing-yuan. explanation hardly see! water, as there remain six Judges for criminal eases, who ought to be enough for the work at least tem-Rorarily pending the appointment of any more.
Dr. Ho Shih-tsung, the President of the Court, says that Room No. 6 is too small for the work that has to be done in it. The answer to this is that the room has been serz~ ing satisfactorily for two years past,
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