'A dramatic scene was enacted in Provisional Court on Sey 4, in the remanded ease of the 23 "Students" arrested by the police for distributing communist pamphleta and creating a disturbance in the Settlement on Sept. 2 when th Senior Consul's Deputy Mr. Stevens, roundly criticized Judge Chou for his refusal to try the case on the ground that the accused were to be handed over to the Chinese authorjes for trial pending the receipt of a properly signed dispatch warrant, Mr. Stevens delayed the extradition of the accused by issuing to the Court a written protest that went considerably further than his stirring protest of Sept. 3 though it followed closely the ideas of that document.
Following his original action ho received the full support of the Con sulay Body which met on Sept. 5 at the office of Mr. E, S. Cunning ham, Senior Consul.
At the first hearing of the case Me. RT, Bryan announced that the police would raise no objection to their being turned over to the Chinese authorities providing a proper warrant was received from that body.
The Judge's Refusal AM, Stevens, however, took imme= into exception to such action on the ground that the Provisional Court, was able and capable of trying the tease as was its duty under the Rendition Agreement, and the Consular body at the later meeting upheld his stand.
Judge Chou nevertheless issued ant order that the accused be handed over to the Chinese authorities on receipt of a properly signed warrant.
Shortly after the hearing of Sept. 3, General Chien Tarchun, Com. mander of the Woosung Shanghai Garrison, forwarded an application for extradition to the police which was not Hmoured since Judge Chav's order was that the warrant should come from the Chinese Authorities, not the:
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