Alleging that an article published the "Shanghai Evening Zaria" on August 3 this year was libellous, Abbot Chao Kung, formerly known as Trebitsch Lincoln, brought a private criminal prosecution in the Second Special District Court on Friday against Mrs. O. V. Lembiteh and Mr. A. L, Weiss, publisher and editor respectively of the "Shanghai Even-Ing Zaria," charging them with libel. $10,000 damages were claimed, The Judge ordered one week's adjourament as neither the complainant nor the defendant appeared in court, being represented by their lawyers, The article complained of was entitled "Trebitseh Lincoln in Abys-sinza."
Counsel for the defence asked for the dismissal of the case, saying that the article was only a reprint of one which appeared in a newspaper pub-Iished in Riga,
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