Soochow, Oct. 2.
Hu Li-fu, the alleged puppet of the Japanese during the Shanghai hostilities last spring and head of the. so-called Chapel Peace Preserv tion Committee, was formally charg-
Jattached to the Kiangsu High Court yesterday, by the procaratarate lon' the following six counts:
Establishment of organizations Jendangering the safety of the State. Rendering aid to the enemy; Ope ting of gambling establishments; a, Trafficking in opium; Establishment
of Tt will be recalled that following arms.
opium dens; Unlawful possession
of|nis arrest by the Greater Shanghai /Municipal Authorities in August, Hu was escorted to Nanking where he Iwas subjected to an examination by the Military Court of the Ministry lof War.
The Military Court then case did not come Hu was therefore to the Procuratorate of the Kiang-High Court for prosecution in accordance with the Law governing Emergency Punishment. of Crimes against the Star 'The statement of indictment fled lby the Procuratorate with the Kiangsu "High Court yesterday charges that through the introduction' of a Japanese friend, Hu got an Jappointment from the Japanese military command as Heed of the. so-called Chapel Peace Preservation 'Association, which was composed of (Chinese rowdies and Japanese of the Hronin" type. Besides. "maintain-ting local peace and order" under the direction of the Japanese military' authorities, the Association also took upon itself to collect taxes fand levies from Chinese inhabitants the Chapel area. The Association began to function on April, and [was dissolved on the 10th of the same month following the cessation of hostilities between the Jay land Chinese forces. After. dissolution of the said Association, Hu Jorganized and established a so-called fuh" company, which secretly ran gandbling establishments and Jopium dens and carried on an ¢x-tensive traffic in opium. In August, was arrested by secret detective the Public Safety Bureau of the] Greater Shanghai Municipality at Cantonese restaurant on the Jukong Road, Shanghai (off North JSzechuan Road), and was found carrying a, ist, understood that trial of thei case will take place shortly at the Kiangsu High Court here. Hu has Jalrendy retained a lawyer to appear for his defence—Kuo Min,
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