Mr. W. Bruce Lockhart, editor and publisher of "The Showdown," a weekly periodical, was summoned before Judge G. W. King in HM. Supreme Court on August 24 under the China Orders in Comneil, Art. 39 (4) to show reason why he should not be committed for contempt of.court in respect of an article published in his paper on 'August % entitled "The Savagery of the Rice-fed Mind," strongly criticizing the sentences passed by' Judge John C. H. Wa in the Provisional-Court on C. Garcia and G. F. del Valle in connection with the "Wheel" at 151¢ Bubbling Well Road.
The Crown Advocate, Mr. Ay Mossop, appeared for the prosect tion, and Mr. Tycho Wing represent the defendant, The Order in Council under which the prosecution was brought reads as follows:
"If any person subject to the jurisdiction of the Court does any act in relation to proceedings in Chinese court or before a Chinese judicial officer, or in a court or before a judicial officer in China of any State in amity with His Majesty's, which, if done*in the course of, or in relation to, any proceedings in the Court, would have been purus able as an offence such person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on con vietion, to such punishment as he would have been liable to in the course of or in relation to proceed= ings in the Court."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.