Harbin, July 27, Yesterday representatives of the [Russian press were received by the Procurator of the High Courts Mr. Maru, who in the course of his con-Jversation touched upon a series of Important questions. "He sal few days ago I returned from Changchun where I had to go on per~ sonal business. During my visit to the capital I received information that in the autumn of this year a number of Japanese lawyers would rive in Harbin, these having been specially instructed to proceed to Manchuria from Japan.
"The question of a number of; [Japanese lawyers coming to the Harbin Court has been definitely settled fas the budget which has been confirmed includes the cost of their services. Such court officials are Jabsolutely necessary because the Jmembers of the Manchurian courts Ihave much less knowledge than the [Nippon ones.
"For the complete re-organization of court affairs special judicial courses will shortly be opened and students {for these courses may be of any nationality provided that they are citizens of the Manchurian Empire. The courses will be similar to. those Jot the Judicial Faculty and will refquire three years' attendance.
"At the same time as the organiza tion of these courses, the question of the three languages—Manchurian, Japanese and Russian, which are Jauired owing te the local conditions. will be discussed, Kaspe Murder Some members of the press maul Jed into the position of the case concerning the murder of Simon Kaspe, Which has been in the hands of the Police Department for about a year, land documents have not been handed Jover to the Procurator.
'To this question Mr. Maru answer-led: "Shortly after my taking up the post and duties of the Procurator, 1 looked into this ease. According' to ithe laws of the Manchurian Empire there is a definite time during which such criminals should be handed over to the Procurator with a definite "During the term of one year the authorities concerned have more than Jonce requested for more time to investigate the whole affair from which jit may be concluded that the case is {far from finished and that the authorities hope to arrest other partici-Jpators who have so far not got into their hands.
"Thus the murderers of Kaspe will remain in prison until all. those who participated in the case are brought to justice."
'A reporter put the question as to whether Mr. "Maru considered the situation absolutely normal, to which Me. Maru replied: "Unfortunately. this affair began before T took up my' [position bout if it had been commenced fatter that date T should simply have. Jgiven an order to hand over everything to the Procurator. Owing to the authorities having the right to get extensions of time for new inves tigations this case may be continued for ever. It is possible that this is not logical, but it is so.
"However, I think that, as soon the authorities have discovered all the participators, the whole of the Jdocuments will be handed over immediately to the courts. The present situation may be explained exclusively by the fact that the authorities Jare not quite certain that they have, Jail the participators in this crime in their hands"
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