Startling Revelations of Extent of Communist Propaganda Among Student Class: College Vice-President in the Dock: "University a Hotbed of Bolshevism"
Dyno Li-dz, Vice-President of the Shanghai University, 132 Seymour Road, who was formerly described as a journalist, appeared on remand before Mr. Ma id. Magistrate Kuan at the Mixed Court on Friday Inst week on the charge of being' an undesirable.
Mr, Maitland (prosecuting) that he wished to make an applic ton for the destruction of the books which had been seized by the p at the Shanghai University. He also wished to make an application expel accused as an undesirable, With regard to the application of the publication laws, he was very grateful to the Chinese District Magistrate who had sent him a copy of these laws. From this book it was clear thut newspapers were classed as. public wish to charge accused again on those laws. He only wished that the books should be confiscated and the accused expelled.
Mr. Covey (defending) said that!
no one had brought a fresh charge they could not expect accused to be expelled from the Settlement. 'The publication laws were not laws at all but merely rules issued by Yuan Shih-kai, 'They were purely selfish, as Yuan Shih-kai wished to become Emperor, which he actually' did for w time. ' Most of the mandates were never passed by par ment and all of them were cancel by Li Yuanchung the followi Any criminal case against a newspaper was dealt with only by the provisional criminal code. There had never been in this Court a ease which had not,
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