Nanking, June 18.
Commenting on the report that the eight Japanese renins who attacked and burned the San Vu Towel Factory in Shanghai just. prior to Japanese hostilities were sentenced by the Nagasaki district court on June 3 to terms of 12 and 18 months' imprisonment, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office characterises the decision. as_most prejudiced and disappoint "The San Vu outrage, he doctor. ed, which indirectly" precipitated the Shanghai fighting, was universal-condemned -and all fair-minded people expected its perpertraters to be severely punished by their home Government. But to everybody's surprise and disappointment these! detestable disturbers of peace and order were, in practical effect, acquitted by the Nagasaki court, for the execution of their sentences, which are ridiculously mild, every case declared suspended.
Concluding the Spokesman declared that the Nagasaki judgment re. Hected rather badly on the state of Taw and justice in Japan and he expressed the hope that the di would be soon altered by a higher court.—Reuter,
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