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admitted low standard of ef- ficiency when compared with the Chinese and Sikh members of the force, to the level of the Euro- pean officers, is a case in point.
The suppression of an Ameri- can - owned Chinese-language newspaper for, of all things, an alleged anti-Wang~~Ching-wei article, is another. The extension of this ban to at least two of the five English-language news- papers would be logical if not in order.
The S.M.C. would appear to favour Mr. Chamberlain's policy of "appeasement." Is Hongkew to be another Berchestgaden? the Settlement another Munich?
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SHANGHAI TO HAVE ITS OWN MUNICH?
Lord Hewart has been warn- ing jurymen that "a loose acquiescence by a minority in the view of the majority would be flagrantly wrong, and members of a jury must not, from a de- sire to acquiesce, or to avoid ec- centricity, or to save time and trouble, represent themselves as holding a view which they do not hold." The warning may recall some occasions from the past. The most famous of all cases of minority jurors were surely that of the trial of the Seven Bishops in 1688. At first nine of the jury were for acquitting, three | for convicting. Two of the min- ority yielded, one stood out. He was Michael Arnold, King's brew- er, whose lament over his inclu- With the presentation of a
sion had set the town laughing. note calling for drastic revision] "Whatever I do I am sure to be of the administration structure | half-ruined. If I say 'Not Guilty of the International Settlement I shall brew no more for the King. If I say 'Guilty' I shall brew no of Shanghai by Mr. Sawada, Ja-
more for anyone else." He held panese Vice-Minister of Foreign out all night in spite of the de- Affairs, to the American and claration of Thomas Austin, " British Ambassadors to Tokyo, country gentleman of great es- tate," on the other side. "I am the progress towards the anschluss
not used," said` Arnold, “to rea- of that great cosmopolitan treaty soning and debating; my con- port, built largely through the science is not satisfied; I shall not efforts of American and British acquit the Bishops." "If you come to that," said Austin, "look at traders and businessmen, comes
me. I am the largest and strong- another step nearer completion.est of the twelve; and before I Hitherto, the Japanese demands find such-a-petition as this a liber here I will stay till I am no big- have been for "closer -co-opera-
ger than a tobacco pipe." But tion" in the Japanese sense of Arnold held out till six in the the term. This co-operation has morning. included what has amounted to complete Japanese jurisdiction over all Chinese, south o of the Persuading The Minority Soochow Creek on the grounds of
newspapers
news trolled complete usut ing and
that
"
There is also a less famous side
the suppression of terrorists; the to such cases. Montagu. Williams suppression
anti-Japanese has a story of a case in which a in the Settlement jury retired at six in the even- ing and did not return a verdict. (and the fostering of strong till four the next morning. They anti-British and anti-foreign had intimated that there seemed in the Japanese-con- to be no chance of an agreement, but the judge was determined to and the almost
get a verdict. When they did tion of all polic-
come in it was noticed that one nicipal right over juryman had not answered the the Settlement north roll; his name was repeated and there came a feeble answer, “His of the Bone
Creek, on the now coat and waistcoat were torn from ewhat vagne grounds of his back; his very shirt sleeves. "military necessity.'
were tattered; and his face was While the S.M.C. has been able the minority Juryman who had besmeared with blood. This was
"ignore “Mayor”” Fu Siao-en caused the delay and had evident- and his puppet government, ly been persuaded' by the rest. sheltering behind the Consular And there is a tale, perhaps. apocryphal of a Juryman who vis the
had been "got at" by the solici- whose tor for the defence in a murder are no trial. At all costa he must stand other na-out for manslaughter. Eventual- elmpat that of ly the jury had to be thischarged. demands, whe- "I Had a hard fight,” the juryman. or not, after an sold to the clerk who congratulat
dasdeed him on having earned his anese money. "I was alone. The rest
ties,