Standing under a life-sized portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Governor Olson delivered a speech outlining the Mooney case and his reasons for believing Mr. Mooney- innocent. He said the bombing of July 22, 1910, when explosives in a suitcase at the corner of San Francisco's Stuart and Market Streets killed ten persons and wounded forty others w es ing the Preparedness Day para had been placed by unidentified Mexicans who were angered by the United States Army's pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexican territory.
Mr. Mooney for 22 years has asserted that his conviction, and Hongkong, Jan. 8.
Japan's "reconsideration" of her attitude towards China, exemplifiedtin the December 22 statement of Prince Ayamaro Konoye, former Japanese Premier, constitutes an "opportunity to end the present war" which "must not be allowed to pass again."
This statement was made by Mr. Wang Ching-wei, former Deputy Chief Executive of the Kuomintang, in a telegram dispatched to the Central Executive Committee of the party and the Chinese Supreme National Defence Council on December 28, The full text of the telegram, amplifying that sent by Mr. Wang to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek which was published on December 31, was made public here tonight. The Statement reads:
"On the 9th of this month (Dec.
9, 1938), I expounded to the General Executive of the Kuomintang, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the view that the difficulties now confronting China arose out of the problem of how to sustain the war, that with regard to Japan they arose out of the problem of how to end the war, that both countries realized their own. pa ticular difficulties as well as the di culties of the other, and that there fore, peace is not an impossibility. original death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment, were the result of a conspiracy because of his union labour activities. The prosecution had contended he was an anarchist.
Near the end of his speech, the Governor asked Mr. Mooney to stand.
I now hand you your pardon,' the Governor id in a clear, dramatic voice. He then sat down quickly and signed the official papers while a madly cheering
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