Mr. Wing, in opening the defence, seid that the prosecution was technical one, based upon a dificult point of lay, and he must ask for an adjournment in order to consult. authorities. The point raised by the prosecution was the difference in power under the Orde in Council of the Secretary of State and the Viceroy of India, Could the Viceroy give permission to return? The accused held a passport from the Viceroy and had been in China singe 1920, during which time he had registered regu the Consulate and there raised, said, The prosecution had licen started beeatse the acesed hid just gen elected president the Faoshan Read Gurdwar:
In the witness box Charon Singh proved his passport. When he first came to China he had gone to Hankow and came to Shanghai in 1022, where he had registered every year' since. There had Been no '3 ficulties raised over his registra. tion and he had produced his. pass port every time. "In April thix year he had been elected president of the Gurdwara and the C.D. had then called him. He had told them about his previous deportation. He said that he had been in no trouble Shanghai,
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