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SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION
IN SHANGHAI:
GERMAN'S REFUSAL TO ANSWER
QUESTIONS.
CASE BEFORE THE MIXED COURT,
On Marchist in the Mixed Court. Shaughni, Mr. Grant Jones. British As zensor and Magistrate Yu continued the besting of the case in which five Chinese answer two charges, one of being on March 25th in possession of certain explosive artic Tew within the limits of the International Settlement without the order, sanction, or authority of the Coul Body (Official Vanzón), arid elu send that within the sume limits they did unlawfully carry or tain offensive and difensive aros to wit, pistol ammunition and gun shells.
Mr. E E. Newnan appeared for the prosecution and Mr. G. D. Muso watched the case for the Chinese Government,
Inspector Young, continuing the evidence that there were 15 cases in the cart, when it was stopped. The shela wew of 37-mm, calibre. There were four oises, of "explor iyos, twn of armour piercin- and two of case shot-much the same as shrappel, but without Ensea
which he gave on the last occasion, mid-
THE HUCHOV,
Eritz Sommer, a German, agreed in sub- stance with the evidence of Inspector Young and said that at the police station. the document issued by Admiral Wang was produced. After that he went and saw the Chief of Police, Mr. McEuen, and pro. {} duced to him the huchow and the document of Admiral Wang. They were thrown back to his, with a gesture, which the witness reproduced, with the remark, This thing
is use to me."
The Axessor: Quite true.
the ammunition, without the congent of Mr.
THE SHANGHAI SHELL CASE
NIELSEN'S "ACCOMPLICES
SENTENCED,
GERMAN CONSULATE'S RESPONSIBILITY, On March 31st at the French Mixed Court, Shanghai, Me In Prado, the French Assoor, rond nu interesting judg mon in the two cases which were brought before himself mid Magistrate Nich, arising out of the discovery of the shells in thỏ pond in premises occupied by the German Nielsen. Lau King-pisu, Nielson's chauf fear, was charged with complicty in the storing of arms and ammunitions and Miss Emma Weinstock was charged with being in possession of a false French passport. second defendant,
Mr. G. D. Musso appeared for the
*After an exhaustivo feview of the avi- dence, M. de la Prade found that the decla. rations of the witnesses called wore precise tion whose aim was to carry disorder and and proved the existence of an organiza destruction notably into Siberia, at strat gic points, such as railway bridges, into India and on merchant ships. Concluding, the anngistrate said: The facts of the case are of such exceptionaį gravity as to war- rant severity on the part of the Court in dealing with Nielsența accomplices; but,
|conception, preparation and direction of the criminal note in question are not ber
race course and are Mr. McEucofused ingemuch as the persons responsible for the
to
Witness continued that he was further to that the letter of Admiral Wang's which was also produced was also held to be of no use. Mr. McEuen then told him that he would have to go and see the German Consul to obtain a permit, which would have to be counter-signet b the Senior Consul. M. Siffert. He obtained the pornit from the German Consulate and had it counter-signed by the Belgien Con- ul. He returned with it to the Central Police Station, but failed to catch Mr. McEuen, He was referred to the Gordon od Police, but they refused to bite McEuen, who had left his office at 1 o'clock at the Kinngwan Race and was then Course. He returned to the Gorman Con- sulete and asked Mr. Schirmer, who waз a personal friend of his, to go out to the and ho was fold that there Mfr. THE WALK TO THE STATION.
abey the order of the highest authority the Germann Consul and the Bo'gian Con. Referring to the walk the station, wis said that as he, a police sergeant sul who had issued the permit "From the Court, the Court has some grounds and the foreigner were on their way, they
o'clock uute 7.30 I could not get any for showing clemency towards the accom were met by mata, car: which contain information from the Police and the order plices, who have already been errested. nother foreigner and a Chinese in naval issued by the highest authority in the Set by the police.
As regard Liu King-pino, it has not uniform, The foreigner produced a kalement was absolutely neglected. Here in chow issued by the Ministry for the Navy. this Settlement, the revolution is hardly over heen shown that he has fully known the The foreigner asked witness to release the n year, and revolution is still going on incriminal object which the gang, of which man heal with bit as he had a propor the neighbouring provinces, no head of Nicisen i manber, had in view; he is permit Witnes, replied that this permit police was available from one o'clock until therefore only guilty of being an accom produced did not apply within the Settle 330. I should like to make a point of that plice in the act of unauthorized transport ment. They then all got into the car and
se that it may get into the paper and so and deposit of explosivo-matters. Know- rove hack to the station. The foreigner, that the case may be represented more ing tlat this transport was unauthorized, who was found with the cart, gave big name correctly then it so far hus. It has been the chauffeur ought to have informed the But, ox- as H. Thompson and the other in the car represented in a way ng if I were a gun- police of what was going on. at Fritz Sommer vier Conent for Norway runner." Witness continued that he was tenuating circumstances exist in his favour at Tientsin and a member of the firm of no such thing and that he held a buchow because his niaster, calling every day at from the highest authority, and continued: Telge & Schroeter, TientsinA TRAN
Acting on instructions, winess released "It is a state of kings which so far has never existed before and I think it is about the anunition. Witness had opened one ing arts into China for the last 25 years the foreigner and detained the Chinege audi
time it was changed. I have been import- of the cartridges and on the bottom of the shell was stumped the words "Hotchkiss, and I have never needed a single pass or Paris It was said by the men at the Permit from any local authority. station that the whole business was straight went on again to complain of the manner and above board. It was a deat that they Press, and enid the Press were asking in which the case had been handled by the were putting through with the Arsenal, Mr. Theisen mentioned than the ammuni
where are the army?" tion came to Shanghaj in 1910.
Mr. R. B. Hauean, a British subject, who said be attended Court umler sub- pena, said he was the engineer in charge of the Kiangnan Engineering Dock, which was controlled by the Ministry of Navy.
A SHIP FOR HOME GUNS. The first by heurd of the matter wing on March 20. wher. Admiral Wing told hi that he had received nururtions to take delivery of four guns to be placed on n Chinese aval laat, which was being built. He asked witness to make arrangements to esult with him about plecing the muns
board the vessel. The bout was a power fu tug-boat of about 135 feet in length, and 35 ft. beam, Witness replied that before he knew whether the gun; could be placed on the craft, he wou'd have to know what kind of guns they were and Admira Wang read from the tel gram, which he had received, that two were quickfirers of 37 mm, and two were quickfrers of 53-mm,
Nothing further happened until March 24, when Admiral Wang asked him to send. a steam launch up the Soochow Creek, show. ing him on a small scale map the place to which he wanted the launch to go. There, was also another pince marked upon the creek, where it touches the Settlement near- Josfield. Admira Wang said that the guns were field gens and when witness said they would be 100 big to be handled on a launch, he was told that they were packed in cases. Witness then advised Admiral. Wang that the Custom should be notified and, subsequent to this being done. Inspec tor Mellows was also informed.
Mr. Newman:-Do you know anything about the movements of big steamers in the Huangpu I know of boats coming to the dock and going away from it.
Is it not a fact that the att. Deike Rick mer has come up near the Arsenal ?—Yes. When did she come up 1-She came up fast week:
Where is a berth now ?-She is berth- ed about half-way between Tungkadoo and Kiangnan Dock,
Do you know where she has been for the paat eighteen month? Yes: in the lower reaches of the river,
Could the boss, you are building go to Seg with those guns on board of her —Oh, yes.
NO. NOTIFICATION TO POLICE,
In answer to Mr. Musso, witness said he did not know whether the Kiangnau authorities communicated with the Bureau for Foreign Affairs on the subject; be did. not think they did. He did not know that the Chinese officer in uniform was given a pass under the seal of the Kiangvan Dosk by Achiral Wang, DNA
At this juncture Mr. Fritz Sommer pro Ltd.duced the pass, which read: The bearer of this is a naval officer from the Chinese navy and is in charge of 79 cases of navel stores to be taken from Ferry Road wifi
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Mr. Sommer said that he showed the poss to Inspector Young on the day of the Reizure
Witness
The Assessor-Perhaps you are going to tell us?
The witness-Certainly; I will tell you As soon as you give me permission to ship the goods,
́a fixed hour on his Consul, must have sp- peared to this Chinese sa unan of high influence. This idea explains why the police the transport of ammunitions and chauffeur did not dare to denouaes to the why he began to confess everything only when he saw all the evidence that was against him
THE FALSE PASSPORT.;
As regals the woman Weinstock. it han in breu shown that she has been an accou plies in the act of transport or deposit ai however, succeed, in August, 1914, in ob the "shel's in Nielsen's garden. She did, taining from the French Consul in Singa- pore, French passport, by taking ad- vantage of a name that is not her's and of a certificate of registration that is a for gery. This certificate is in the nomo. of Yes-That is an affair between the Chen Schwartz, registered at the French se Minister and myself, of which I have Consulate in Moscow, while there is no, no right to give anything away I am our and never was, anybody of that many re- the Chinese Government would most dis-gistered at the French Consulate there, tinctly object to that.
Me Nowman, cross-examining: Was this ■- genuine transaction -Mỹ tans- action with the Chinese Minister 1
Was this a sale by you to the Chines Government of I don't see why should answer that.
HEFUSAL TO ANSWER
When taking advantage of this forgeel cor
tificate, the woman Weinstock know, as sho Moreover, she called on March 6 of the confused herself. that it was a forgery.
present year at the French Consulate at Shangbai in order to obtain a French pass port under that very name that was not The Assessor :--Mr. Soudber, you were introduced to me is by private room by the man, when she was not, and that she was
hera, stating that she was a Fronch wo Core Assessor, with a view that you willing to go back to France. The woman should come here and give evidenco and assist the Court as far as you could. By Schwartz is therefore guilty of baving not answering the questions you create a knowingly used a false vamo and a forged most unfavourable impression. If this is that false name. The Court, however, ad- certificate of French registration under an above-board transaction, there is mits that come elemency must be shown reason why you should not answer overy question by counsel and give all the infor- sation you are asked for
to a woman, who seem to have ben a vic- tim of the white slave trafic. But the forged certificate of registration in the name of Emma Schwartz was returned in August, 1914, to the woman Weinstock, who says they she destroyed it. She says, too, that this certifient, was given to her in Cairo by a certain man named David Weissherps, or Wise of uncertain nation- ality, and that this man may possibly be present now at Shanghai,
In answer to further questions, witness stated that on April 1 the Customs assumed the right to take into their godowns the pargo which balong to arms dealers, and be was seeing that he got the goods to the Arsonal and having them delivered to the proper suthorities. He had gold the goods to the Chinese Minister in Peking. Don't you forget," he added, "the Germans are
The ovidence heard at the Court points at war with the British and I am not going conclusively to the ext tence at the Ger- to disclose any of my transactions, Heman Consulate of an organization, the busi declined to say whether he had a written contract or not.
ness of which is to obtain and to give fake and forged passports. Further, Nielesn Mr. Newman-I don't mind. That is has offered to provide the woman Weinglock your answer. There is a very strong in with a felss passport. Again, ho asked ference to be drawn and
shall draw that her, if she succeeded in going to France, inference.
Witness You are here in the Interna tional Police Court, and I am before a British Assessor. I am not giving that away. If I was before a Gorman Assessor
to carry something that Nielsen said he was willing to give to his friends in- France, where he said he had many.
These are, therefore, gravé, precise and
I might answer, but I am not going to ans.conclusivo suspicions that the gang, of wer questions like that before a British which Nielsen is a momber, has had the Asso
jden of making use of the woman Weinstock in order to establish communications with some other confederates in Europe.
The Assessor-Your authorities made no claim that the ease should come before 3 Gerina Assessor:
GRAVE DOUBTS OF THE TRANSACTION. Mr. Nowman-I want you to understand that there are grave doubts about the genuinoness of the transaction.
You doubt that the Chinese Mind
bought these goods from me?
The Court, therefore, condemns Liu King-piao to six months gaol and orders that, his time being served, he will be put under surveillance. The Court condemns, too, the woman Weinstock to three months gang and to a fine of $2.000, and orders that, basher time being served, glo will remain unday the special watch of the French Police without the authorina ion of whom she ought not to leave either the French; Coverasion or Shanghai tillig end of tha
was
To There are grave doubts. You have refused to say what the contract is; will you produce the huchow?No; that thrown to me by the highest authority of the police saying it was no use.
No
No, it is not, but will you produce it?
war.
the usual form. Any particulars they house, and I have ammunition like that too
Witness denied that the huchow was not ammunition is still in Mr. Thomson'g
wanted to know about the buchow, they (poiuting to the Nielson specimen). Mr. could find by seeing it at the German Con- Nielsen is not the only owney of Hotch sulate; he would not produce it to the kiss ammunition," Court
Inspector Givens produced a letter from the Collector of Customs, which stated that Mr. Newman-I put it to you that the their inquiries did not show that my details of the ammunition were not written packages bearing similar marks to those by the same hand and at the same time as on the cases had passed through the Cus the huchow was granted-That is a ques toms. The letter was signed by Mr. Untion you might ask the man who wrote it win Witness also produced & sample of It is in the form it was handed to me h the hells found in the prensises occupied
the Minister in Peking by Nielson at 44, French Bicawei Road, That shell was of 53 m, calibre, enjo
Inspector Young, recalled, was asked by Mr. Nowman: Was.gay permit issued by the Municipal Counce notified to you for the removal of ammunition through the Set tment-No, there was not.
The Assessor-You have told us where the ammunition is, why not tell us where the gun, are? It was on the paper,
shing
What was on the paper It is a pity the police did not take a copy of it. They seem to be doing horse-racing and other things and not doing their business
Will you tell us the calibre of the four The Assessor then pressed for the pro-guns you sold No: I am not allowed to duction of the buchow, but witness stead-give away what kind of gun the Chinese fastly refused to produce it, saying it Government is going to put on board thair could be seen at the German Consulate, He was not going to give it to the Court here. Tracing the cargo, witness said that it came to Shanghai as far back is 1900 Or by the Consular Body 1-Not until and during the Boxer trouble via con- after the ammunition had been brought to fiscated by the Gorroan Consul ledged in the station. A considerable time after the British gaol and subsequently return- wards Messrs. Thomsen and Sommer cameed. The guns were not lodged in the goot, back to the police station in a motor car. because without ammunition they were
his rules.
to addresses sent; including postage 34|-- And they brought a permit signed by the
cants each.
Hongkong, 7th April. 1916.
Senior Consul!—Yes,
Dated when 1-Dated the same day.
"You have not got hold of all the am minition," the witness continued. "Other
Witness said that the huchow specified 79 cases. He denied the suggestion - pat by the Assesso, that it only allowed for 44. Inspector Young, recalled, said he ow the huchow. The numbers on it were 44 and 35 and, contrary to the usual practice, the numbers were not covered by the seal,
Mr. Newman-Could the 35 have been written in afterwards-Yes, the seal wise not over the numbers,
The case was again adjourned.