Seoul, Aug. 7.
Following a thorough inquiry into the case of Mr. Sun Ping-chien, a self-styled Chinese Consul in Seishin, Becused by the military authorities of espionage, the Seishin local court to-day ordered his release, on condition that he should leave immediately for Chin:
similar verdict was given an unrevealed number of his accomplices, arrested by the police and gendarmes on July 36, "The presiding judge said that the accused were found to be guilty of violating the military secrets' pro-servation law, but in view of their pledge not to repeat the offence a their expressions of regret, the Court decided not to prosecute then.
At the time of their arrest, the headquarters of the Korean Garrison officially announced that the men were suspected of military espionage in favour of country." The men had their headquarters io the former Russian consulate, which remained vacant since the revolution 1017, and which was leased by the Soviet Government to the arrested men in 1981, king vantage of the fact that late, the arrested Chinese set up a fictitious Consulate, while actually gathering confidential military information and supplying it to certain quarters," the Army. communique declared, Seishin is one of the three newly constructed ports in North Korea, important not only as outlets for Manchurian staples, but also strategical centres situated close to the Soviet border—Domel,
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