Linge Yuen-pau, No, 1 boy in the employ of Mr, Harry Morriss, was brought before M. d'Hooghe, Prenident. and Mr. Nien, Magistrate, ix the Frereh Mixed Court on Sept. 14, charged with imprisoning without authority and depriving, by means f illegal methods, the liberty locomotion of the daughter of a Portuguese named E. F, Bathala.
M. J.-Barraud, Police Prosecutor, appeared to prosecute and M. A. da Pac de Marsoulies defended. "Mr. J.
Badeley watched the ease in the interests of the French Police.
At the outset of the proceedings, 1M. clu Pao de Marsoulies stated that hho had filed a motion, a copy of which he submitted to the Court, regarding jurisdiction, The Court, he said, was incompetent to try the present case because the complainant was a citizen of other that French nationality and so the case would have to be referred to the Provisional Court in accordance with fan agreement entered into between the French and International Mixed Courts' in June, 1902, which was sanctioned by the Consular Body in Shanghai and the Diplomatic Corps in Peking. This agreement provided that, when the complainant was not of French nationality, the case would have to be heard before the International Mixed Court, now the Shanghai Provisional Court, and not the French Mixed Court. The Police, M, clu Pac de Marsoulies submitted, should have charged cused in the Shanghai Provisional Court and not before the French Mixed Court,
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