Dairen, Jan, 29.
There has been a sensational sequel to the appeal of the ye Europeans against the sentences Imposed upon, them by the Dairen District Court for the piracy of the Chinese s. Sheng An in Chinese waters in June, 'Alter a protracted hearing the Apppeliate Court in Port Arthur to-Gay gave its verdict, ae follows:—Confirmation of the death sentence upon Captain Hugo 'Taudien, alleged. Fingleader of the gang, and Heinrich Westermann; 'Alteration' of the sentence of lite Imprisonment imposed upon Arthur Gautehl and Walter Buller to dea Confirmation of the sentence of ten years' Imprisonment upon George Schroeder, the fifth accused, Couiisel'for the defence was absent to-day, but all the prisoners took the verdict coolly, Subsequently, they intimated that they would bring the matter to the Supreme Court in Port Arthur in another effort to have their sentences The five Europeans are alleged to have seized the Sheng An. on June 29, 1933, and to have murdered ten persons aboard the vessel, including three foreigners.—Reut
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