Shanghai, Mar. 10 'A. strong denunciation' was "made yesterday in the First Special Disinet Court by Mr. Paul Ru. Munteipal Advocate, against five persons who, until recently, were in charge of the No. 42 Refugee Camp in Fah Hwa Cheng and who have been charged with misappropriation of public properly and. with inflicting serious bodily harm causing death of a refugee. He asked the court to punish the accused severely for otherwise public-spirited people would be re-Tuetant" to support philanthropic bodies, The five men were arrested some weeks ago following the receipt, of information by the Settlement police that an aged male refugee named Chang Peh-yuen who lived in the refugee camp had been severely beaten and suffered injuries to which hho succumbed while trying to escape from the camp. 'The victim's son in~ formed the police of the crime and allege that' the accused had misappropriated the property of the Philanthropie body secretly disposing the refugee rice to their own ad-Vantage. His father reported the matter "to the Shanghai Union of Philanthropic Bodies and was therefore beaten at the alleged instigation of the accused.
'After reading the charge, Mr. Ru requested the judge to punish' the accused severely explaining that the accused would be likened to cannnibals who would eat men because they misappropriated property of a philanthropic body. If they went unpunished, public-spirited people would bbe reluctant to support philanthropic bodies and the victim would have died in vain, he stated. He alleged that the vielim had undergone tolerable suffering at the hands of the Tt is understood that the Sudge, having collected all_necessary evidence, will soon give a judgment.
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