'A case is due to be heard next Wednesday in the Portuguese Consular Court involving a Portuguese citizen accused of assault on a foreign Sergeant of the Shanghai Municipal Police while the latter was on duty OUlside the Better Homes Exhibition in Nanking Road on Friday, Nov. 22 The sergeant, C. A. T. Cutbush, it is alleged, was guarding the entrance the exhibition when, in the late Jafternoon, six men claiming to be Portuguese demanded admittance despite the fact the gate had been temporarily closed by order of the management because of overcrowding. A. hand-to-hand encounter followed, in which Sergeant Cutbush was tripped and beaten. He was so badly treated tt it was necessary to send him to the General Hospital.
The persons involved in the disturbance were taken to Central Police Station and questioned. One of them, M. Guterres, was brought before the Portuguese Consular Court, appearing there on Friday morning. The case, however, was adjourned aimes: immediately.
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