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THE SHANGHAI CASE,
The trial of Mr. W. S. Ridge, editor of the National Review, was started in H.M.'x Supreme Court at Shanghai on the 14th instant before Sir Havilland do. Sausinarcz (Judge) and the following jurors: Messrs. F. C. Fouken, N. Thom son, L. C. Healey, A. Stewart and E. Barnard,
THE GERMAN EXCUSE. BLAME OFFICIALLY PUT ON GREAT DRITAIN.
reasonable Chiness point of view." Ho THE “LUSITANIA" INFAMY. wrote the articles of the 6th and 15th Mac and took full responsibility for them. The National Review circulated chiefly antongst Chinese who could read English, foreigners in China, people from St. Helena to Japan and each side of those places,
Mr. Ellis-You have heard the charge made against you?
Witness--Yes
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Mr. H. P. Wilkinson (Crown Advocate) appeared for the prosecution and' Mr. Francis Ellis for the defence.
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Mr. Ellis-Do you consider that the article complained of ia in your opinion Witness-Certainly not, or else I should not have written it.
Mr. Ellis What was the feeling that prompted you to write that article?
Witness From conversation with Chin- The charge was as follower- "For that be, on 15th May, 1915, at ese friends I felt that at a very critical Shanghai, then being the editor of a moment my own Government had let the the Chinese in, had betrayed her ultimate. written
known newspapers National Review, and being a person interests or at least had betrayed the trust subject to criminal jurisdiction of this the Chinese people had in the British 1 was exceedingly lis Honourable Court, did publish and offer Government. for sale the said printed newspaper con-appointed and the sense of disappoint. taining seditious matter, to wit on article mont urged me to write this article in this entitled The Betrayal," contrary to the strain. China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1909,
The article in question was as follows:
THE BETRAYAL":
"China declared by becoming a Republ that he had learned to put not her trust in prince, and now she has learned to put no trust in international ogreements and pro mises that are supposed to be the protection of the loss powerful actions against the By formul strong and overbearing Powers. pledges, by repeated public assurances, by & score of indirect compacts, Japan and Great Britain bave in the past guaranteed the independence and integrity of this country."" For people, except diplomats speaking for public edification, hare ever boliored that Japan desired or had the slightest intention to uphold either the in- dependence or the integrity of China. The annexation of Chosen, the absorption of the best parts of Manchuria, the assistonice leat to those plotting and conspiring against the peace of this land, all proclaim aloud that Japan cards as little for her promises as she does for the slave-driven women and children She regards all alike as in her factories.
From things convenient for exploitation. Great Britain, however, it had been hoped that a check would be placed upon Japanese In this the world has been dis Japan and Britain together have betrayed the trust reposed in them by the millions of the Chinese race and from It is as only so much worthless twaddle. this time on their premises must be regarded useless for Great Britain to plead that she was busy elsewhere. That was doubtless the case, but it was still within her power to call in the friendly co-operation of the United States, whose Government only ranks after that of Great Britain as guilty in this chan
Sir Edward Grey has made it ful desertion.
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In cross-examination Mr. Wilkinson asked witnese the Shanghai Mercury management did not draw his attention to the fact that his heading articles etc. were tending to lead him into trouble,"
Witness replied in the negative. The Editor-in-Chief of the Mercury in the course of an ordinary conversation, told him he was treading on the corns of the Japanese, und witness quite understood why he (the Editor-in-Chief) should say what he did.
Mr. Wilkinson-Apart from any ques tion of pleasing or displeasing the Japan.! ese, did not Mr. Clark call your attention to the fact that you were liable to get your paper into trouble from the violence of your leading articles!
Witness Never.
Mr. Wilkinson-Can you explain why articles were subject to a sort of consor- you are in Court, and why your leading ship?
Witness-I never heard of that fact On until it was stated in the police court, might correct myself on one point. the day when my office was searched, before the search was made, I got a account of certain eircumstances, he letter from Mr. Clark stating that, ou would not print anything that appeared. to him to be seditions or likely to lead them into legal proceedings.
BERLIN, May 10. The following telegrams has been sent by the German Foreign Office to the German Embassy in Washington:--
Please communicate the following to the State Department. The German Government desires to express its deep- est sympathy at loss of American lives, on board the Lusitania. The respon- aibility rests, however, with the British Government, which through its plan of starying the civilian population of Germany bas forced Germany to resort to retaliatory measures.
In spite of the German offer to stop the submarine war in case the starvation plan were given up, the British Govern ment has taken even more stringent blockade measures.
British merchant vessels being generally armed with guns, and having repeatedly tried to mam submarines, so that previous search was impossible. They cannot, therefore, be treated as ordinary merchant vessels. A revent declaration made in the British Parliament by the Parliamentary Sec-
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Charles Beresford, stated that, at pre- sent pruetically all-British merchant yessels were armed and provided with hand grenades, Besides, it has openly been admitted by the English Press that WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. the Lusitania on previous voyages re peatedly carried large quantities of war materials.
On the present voyage the Lusitania carried 6.400 cases of ammunition, while the rest of the cargo also consisted chiefly of contraband. If England, after repeated official and unofficial German warnings considered herself also able to declare that the boat ran no risk, and thus light-heartedly assumed respon- sibility for human lives on board the steamer, which, owing to its armament and cargo, was liable to destruction, the German Government, in spite of its heartfelt sympathy for the loss of American lives, cannot but regret that Americans felt more inclined to trust English promises rather than pay atten- tion to the warmings from the German side (Signed) Foreign Office.
Mr. Wilkinson-And that written inti mation was entirely a bolt from the-Wireless Press.
it. blue?
Witness-That was the first I heard of
"In further answer to Mr. Wilkinson, witness said his articles represented his own view, and not the view of Chinese His paper was likely to be quoted as an authority; it was quoted week by week in the native press.
Mr. Wilkinson-And your paper would continue whether it paid or not?
Witness Certainly not. The excilement in China on the
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Witness's infor- delayed owing to American agents refus abent 29th March. mation on which he based his articles ing to proceed in consequence of the came from Journalists, and was first Evitamia outrage, Reuter's Washington did not agad-hand information. H correspondent states that the Cabinet has werade balance in Britain had deceived Chinag there for Condenstimate by the Recreary was a great difference between betraying favour of the United States to the 1st China and betraying the trust of the July will amount to 200-miliious-sterling. Chinese people, The Chinese had a certain The British contend that this shows that amount of confidence in the British American trade is not suffering by British Government, and that confidence appeared action. to be misplaced. The article complained of was the consummation of a long series of articles; he felt he was quite within is province in writing it. His object in writing it was to place on record the in-
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which two matters, concerning Britain has made definite plodges in the work, and the question of the open door which the ultimatum shuts in Entera Inner Mongolia, are of so little interest to those two Powers that they are only worth an informal conversation. The plain lesson for Ching is that she cannot expect any help from outsiders, utore especially from those Powers who have made it their full-mouthed boast that they would preserve the integrity anc Japan, independence of this country, Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia and Germany, are all responsible for the events which culminated in the ultimatum of a week ago, but apart from Japan, the uctual.. perpetrator of the crime, Great
Dr. Wu Ting-fang, who described him- Messrs. Wright & Hornby. Britain, is immeasurably the most grossly culpable. The truth is very bitter, but how. ever hitter it may be there is nothing to be self as gentlemm at large," said he Mr. A. H. G. Jackson guine by hiding it; and that is the truth," had occupied many important positions, Mr. P.M. N. S.
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The article would certainly not pro- justified in saying what he did about of Great Britain, Counsel mentioned in duce an ill effect if translated into Chinese. conclusion that the paper was printed by While he strongly disapproved of the the Shanghat Mercury There was no going of the article the effect would be charge against the Mercury, however; beneficial, between Chiu and Creat 1 is quali be statoil in evidence, they had Britain,
Similar evidenes was given Mr. no sympathy with extrung language of that, and had taken certain preedu- Wong Quincey, a Chinese Journant The balance in hand is not sufficient t tions which they thought it wise to adopt. holding a degree of the London Univer-
Mr. H. Philips, H. M.'s Vice Consul, sity and by Dr. Wang Chung-hui, who cover a-further consigament. Contribu OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. said the references to the Japanese had in, called to the Bar of Englandtions are urgently required to "Keep the truel war so as to supply our friests at demands appeared in the public press in and who was formerly Minister of Justice for lying," at the time during this Jinary and public attention was paid Peking D
The jury after prolonged siderate the Front and in the "Trioches with a andeigarette or pipe of t:bacco to cheer Them to them in China in the shape of public meetings, some of which were suppressed returned a verdict of pot guilty On 13th May there was cunsidorble public the defendant was accordingly discharged on their way.. narest regarding, the reports which had appeared in
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Affairs boycott was started in Marea and was still proceeding..
Cross-examined-Witness would regard The National Perir as a Newspaper written in Englis to set forth the Chinese view. There had been no complaints of anything written by the defendant from the Chinese or Japanese
In answer to Mr. Wilkinson witness said he had no knowledge as to whether the paper was subsidized.
This was all the evidence for the pro secution.
SIXTEEN PERSONS DROWNED.
The Zweena, an iron screw steamer of 1,470 tons, built in 1889 by Messrs. J. Blumer & Co., Sunderland, registered in Singapore, and owned by the Heap Eng ob Steamship Co., with Captain J. D. McCraith in coramand, is reported as lust, somewhere near Bali.
Later information is still scanty in detaiIt is known, however, that the Zwiena struck a reef at the eastern entrance to the Straits of Madocrathe passage between the island of Madoera and the mainland of Java, through which the Zwerna would have to make her way in going from Bali to Soerabaya. She has gone down in 20 fathoms of water. The Dutch destroyer For went to the rescue with all despatch and picked up the bulk of the people on board,
Mr. Ellis said he would not address the jury in opening, except to state that the defendant would endeavour to satisfy the court and the jury that the words of the article were not editious.
Defendant than gave evidence, and said drowned, however, three officers and
being eleven passengers
There were
The unfortunate officers were T. Hut
he was by profession a schoolmaster, it of a graduate of the Victoria. Manchester and of the University of Leeds
He came here in 1904 sa head-cheon, aged 46, chief engineer, a native of Aberdeen; Jola Kynech, aged 53. master of the Public School for Chinese Two years later he resigned and joined second mate, a native of Forres; and the Shanghai Mercury as assistant editor. Urban de Sousa, aged 30, second engineer, The paper was then partly Chinese and who belongs to Singapore. The survivors Since January are: Captain W. D. McCraith, E. Jones, partly foreign owned.
first mate, C. B. Angus, third engineer; 1914 the paper had been owned by Chinese. In the articles he had tried to 82 of the crew and 26 passengers. They put forward what he described as the have been taken to Boerabaya-
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