Shanghai, Jan, 10.
Another rice merchant was sen~ fenced yesterday by the First Special District Court to 10. months' imprisonment, charged with profiteering, fand he again was prosecuted accord-Ing to emergency regulations enforeed. by the Chinese government at Chungking in which even: the death penalty ig provided. Te is Kao Han~ ting, manager of the Ta Deli Hsing Rice Hong at 676 Chekiang Road-He was recently found by detectives to have sold the first grade Saigon lee at the price of $9250 per picul, which was $5.50 more than the official price. Kao signified that he would appeal against the Judgment.
Meanwhile, the Shanghai, Rice Price Fixing Committee has changed prices of 15 Kindy of foreign rice sold in Shanghai. Prices of several kinds of inferior foreign grain have been reduced by $1 or $2 but still the prices are very high. Middlemen in the Shanghai Rice Market were allowed {o go into the marke} yester-ay after about two weeks" suspension of their activities: They were warned by their association against secrgly selling ree beyond the priers fixed by the authorities, Chinese Constables Cram Court Shanghai, Jan, 12, Approximately 100 Cisinese con: ables of the Municipal Police erammed the No, 8 courtroom of the North Chekiang Road branch of the First Special" District Court yesterday morning and. ignored an order Judge Mang to leave when the hour verged for the trial of the Chinese constable concerned with the disturbance at the Sinaa extension on Fri-
IL will be recalled that the Reserve Unit had to be called out after Sub-Insp. B, I. Kourjanoky was Injured and: that a number of Chinese eons bles attached to Bubbling Well Station who sympathized with accused refused 10 go on duty for an hour. Accused had fred one shot, siderable persuasion had to. be resorted {0 by the Judiolal Police yesterday to. muke the interested gallery of 'Chinese constables leave the courtroom before the commence: ment of the proceedings while an med police escort remained out~ side. 'The constables did not leave the precincts of the court, lingering behind in the corridor and' jubltantly welcomed the news an hour later that accused had been given a suspended sentence of 30 days' imprisonment, suspended for two years after being convicted of intimidating others by pulling them in fear of injury to their The courtroom was filled to eapneity by the constables and @ number foreign members of the Municipal Police Force and several members of the Volunteer Corps were on duty in the premises of the court, The handcuffs were removed from accused in the presence of the judge after the former was brought into court.
After the Judicial Polio had spoken spoken to the constables pres. ent for some time a few of them were seen leaving and the others reluctantly followed, several at a time until the court' was cleared of spectators, Assistant Municipal Advocate Bang. conducting the prosecution: gave a brief outline of the case and stated that accused was aroused when ro-pri manded by the Russian ofoer who threatened him for suspected derelict tion of duty. Acoused produced a pistol and loaded it, counsel said, and accidentally fired a' shot. A struggle subsequently ensued between prison-and other constables who came to close grips with him tg relieve him of his weapon, Accused then drew hhis baton, Mr. Bang said and hit Sub-Insp, Kourjansky on the left arm, The foreign officer tually. suc ceeded in securing possession of the tun and later made a report to the station, Sub-Insp. Kourjansky stated that accused had abused him and called him a "Russian beggar" and threes tened to shoot and kill him before loading the gun, Two Chinese constables and a Slich havildar then ate tempted to take the qun from accused and a struggle followed. Accused witness said, jumped on one of the constables and attempted to. snatch hig pistol from the holster and hit witness with his baton, The other constables then persuaded witness to return the pistol to accused remarking that he could retain the magazine witness said, adding that the shot was fred by necused accidentally, Prisoner stated that he told the foreign omer not to lie when the sub-inspector acctised him of noglecting his duty and had declared that it justice was to serve its ends, that io would be shot, "He asserted that he had no intention to shoot the emeer and had struggled to retain possession of his gun, Mr, Bang pointed out after other witnesses lad been called that their evidence was contradictory. The statement of the Sikh havildar ala not correspond to the evidence of the Chinete constables.
Mr. Vu En-liang, counsel for ace cused, submitted that the whole trouble staried when Mr, Kourjansky threatened {0 report accused whose duty It was to keep his uniform a gun as a Chinese constable. He ha resisted when an attempt was made to. dispossess him of the weapon. }Counsel also submitted that trouble reso out of a misunderstanding on the part of the foreign sub-inspector and pointed out that the Chinese con= stables who were called as. witnesses slated that they had not seen accused. hit the ameer with his baton,
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