'A Restraining Order which Was Not Enforced: Property\
Found to Have Been Leased to British Subject Oficials of the Kiangsu Provincial Government are reported, by the "Sinwanpao," to be highly indignant lover the alleged failure of the [Shanghai Municipal Police to cooperate. with the Shanghai Provisional Court in executing an order issued by the Court on August 27, by which Mr. Yee Ogonk-nce, proprietor of a mumber of buildings in the Central District, was restrained from forcibly ejecting the tenants and tearing down these buildings.
According to the "Sinwanpao" report, Ya Tah-nang and 87 other shoplwepers, who are tenants of these places, filed action in the Provisional Court for an order restraining the owner from forcing them to, move, from disconnecting {their water supply and from tearing. Jdown the shops which they occupied. [Judge Kuh Kung-di, of the Pro-Yvisional Court, after investigating the facts of the case, issued. the order applied for and restrained Yee Ogonk-nce from taking action pending the outcome of the suit.
However, says the journal in question, "a British lawyer mamed Brandt, accompanied by eight men-bers of the Shanghai Municipal Police, visited the premises on September 2 and directed that the buildings should be torn down by force. Ya Tab-ziang and the other plaintiffs then approached the polic Jat Central Police Station and requested that steps should be take to prevent the labourers from earrying out the anier as a restraining order had been issued by the Provisional Court. The police offcial replied that, according to statements made by Mr, Brandt, the buildings in question had been'leas-Jed by Yee Ogonk-kee to a Mr, Kam, British subject, s0 the police wore powerless to interfere and the Provisional Court, having no jurisdiction, could not issue the restraiaing order.
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