The Archive · 1932

KIANGSU HIGH COURT Alleged Rebels Handed Over

Despite the strong protests of counsel for the defence the Second.

inch Kiangsu High Court on Mar.

ranted the application of the renter Shanghai Bureau of Public fately for the extradition of an alleged gang of reactionaries who Were arrested in the Settlement on March 12 atthe request of Chinese authorities for atlegediy' plotting to seize Nantao and to overthrow the present Chie ese administration in "Shanghat Terao Wel-hsien, a mere boy, Was the only one of the eleven prisoners who is now not in the hands of the Nantao authorities, he having. been ordered by the court to be held temporarily by the Municipal police, pending further investigations.

The court proceedings of March 15 were devoted to heated argu ments by counsel for the defence who strongly objected to the hund-ing over of the prisoners to the of the Public Safety their contentions being, fy," that there, Was 30 far evidence showing that the prisoners had committed any. offence within the Jurisdiction "of. the Public Safety Bureau and that, even if there was any such evidence, the Public Safety Bureau had no Tight a in leat gress, Counsel, further to try the prisoners as it was not

argued that only the cour had jurisdiction over cases against persons who were suspected of having committed offences against the internal security of state, The Court ruled, however, that, although the prisoners, had_ eon arrested in the International Settlement, this had been done at the request of officials of the Public Safety Bureau and that therefore the prisoners, with the exception of one, should be handed over accord to Article six of the Rendition Dairy Licensee Fined For having purchased milk from ther dairy through his coolies the consumption of customers, Isaiah Jacob, licensee of the brgaka, Dairy, 209 Ward Rend;

ale in Ht.

coats by. Me on March "18, charged with having obtained milk From: an unlicensed "dairy. "He pleaded not guilty and. told the court that instructions had been Grant Jones and a jury ea Shine 7 before his Laraship Judge

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