Hankow, June 11, According to the local Chinese papers, the Criminal Division of the hankow District Court has issued its findings in connection with the ease of Paymaster Lieutenant Commander McBride, of the British Naval Office, who, while driving his car on the streets of Hankow on January 23, knocked down a 16-year-old Chinese boy, who subsequently died.
The Criminal lion of the Hankow District Court requests a pablic judgment on Lieutenant Commander McBride, whom it decares guilty of violating the Criminal Code of China.—Reuter, Paymaster Commas. McBride was driving his car on the streets of Hankow on the afternoon of January 23 when he ran down a 16-year old Chinese who was riding a. bicycle land who subsequently died. Ile was immediately arrested and taken to the nearest police station from which he was later escorted to the Bureau of Public Safety in the Chinese City.
Representations were made by the British Consular authorities but these were met by a firm refusal to release the oticer, the Chinese police saying that they were acting in accordance with instructions from Nanking that all foreigners came under Chinese Jurisdiction and had to be tried by the Chinese courts.
The oticer was later released, however, upon direct representations to the Mayor, Gen. Liu Wen-tao, but a written guarantee had to be riven by the British Consal-General that Commdr, McBride would ap-Pear for any inquiry, The body of the dead youth wi encoffined but left on a piece of. Waste land, presumably to allow the leals to' point to it connection with the agitation against forcign-
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