Charged with attempting to sil vert the constitution of the State trid inciting others to conn Fences against the State, in def of Article 103 of the Criminal Code of the Government of China, the entire group of 24 so-called "students" arrested by the police on Sept. 2 in the International Young "Men's Day disturbance, within the Settlement bounds, faced. Judge Chen and the Senior Consul's Deputy, Mr. Stevens, in the Provisional Court on Sept. 3 and were ordered to be handed over to the Chinese authorities The prosecution was in charge of Mr. R. T. Bryan, Police Prosecutor, and before the trial started he called the Court's attention to the fact. that a request had come, scemingly, from the Chinese authorities that the accused be handed over to them, but that on investigation the, request proved to be nothing more than a letter from a detective in the employ of the Garrison Commander asking that the people in custody be handed over to his super fors for trial.
Though much of the evidence was before the court the police in many eases had difficulty in positively identifying certain of those arrested as having actually had pamphlets in their hands at the time the seizures were made.
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