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instalment.
Appendix
1 dated 18th Cotaber 1918.
GERMAN METHODS IN SHANGHAI.
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STARTLING KAPUSURI,
Attempt to ship arms and ammunition to india.
Proceedings in the xized Court.
MATA V AMA AR
There were sensational proceedings in the Kixed Court this
morning, when three chinese citizens were charged with having in their
possession 130 pistols and 20,000 rounds of womunition, A brief
statement of the evidence to be adduced at the trial went to show
that the arms in question were destined for India, and also that they
were to be taken there by a thinama: in the pay of a local Gernan.
The arms in question so far as can be learnt, were to be shipped on
a British or neutral boat na "Kedicine", and an exceedingly peculiar
device had been planned for their conrayw:00, They were contained
in small fist tins about a foot in length, six inches wide and an
inch thick, and, to prevent suspicion, the tins were concealed
between two wooden planks soroved tightly together as if in one
pione, The gae via evidently given away by a curious Chinese
sarpenter, who, being engaged on what be considered an unusual piece
of work, happened to open one of the tine and, to his great surprise,
found, instead of medicine, pistols and ammunition.
The Punicipal volies took their first step in the matter on
Baturday afternoon, when they arrested two wheelbarrow coolies in
possession of some of the planka, and u few further enquiries brought
to light the whele German sel.ame, which, we are thankful to say, was
"nipped in the bud", KP. A. Fielsen, of lasera. Garrels, Dorner and
Co., a German firm which had until recently represented a London insurance company, was one of the culprits, and the German Mixed Court Assessor immediately took steps to have the duse tried by
himself