In the Provisional Court (Anpellute Jurisdiction, last Priday, before Judge Zia, Lok and Chen, sitting as appellate judges, an appeal w heard wherein the Shanghai Municipal Police appealed against a Judgment of Judge Wu in the lower court on May 18.
The appellants were represented by Mr. P, W. Goldring, Assistant alice prosecutor and the respon dent, one Tsang Zing-lec, manager of the Kwong Hu Book Store, 552 Foochow Road, was represented by Mr. $. ¥, Lee.
The police alleged in the court that the - defendant offered for sale and had in fact sold the store of which he was manager, indecent literature. The book was known as "The Dream Continent" and was published fort nightly, the price being 15 cents per copy. In the lower court the ease was dismissed, police appealed. against the decision und ut laet Friday's hearing, Mr. Goldring argued at length the earned Judge in the lower court was wrong in dismissing the charge, A plain clothes Chinese detective gave evidence to the effect that he had purchased the book now. before the court, for 15 cents at defendant's store.
AL the hearing last Friday, defendant produced a letter from the Nationalist Central Publication Committee which said that the hook iment by counsel, thei honours intimated that they would deliver judgment later, In smother court, Yoh Yung-sung, described ax a newspaper editor, was prosecuted by the Central Pro= paganda Committee of the Nation. alist Government with having had in hiv possession a quantity of pamphlets which were alleged to contain indecent matter. The judge ordered that the pamphlets be destroyed and dismissed the ease,
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