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TUESDAY, MARCH 33. 1920.

SPECIAL CABLE.

ROVGENECKS AT SHANGHAI

[HINA MAIL, SPECIAL.)

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SHANGHAI, March 23. Two American sailors, charged with highway robbery and assult upon a merchant seaman who was their companion, have been com- mitted to trial and released on ball of $1,000.

CAN

THE REVOLUATIONISTS GOVERN SIBERIA ?··

[China Mail INTERVIEWS |

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

| SEQUEL. TO WARDEK SPEED'S

MURDER.

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At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, presided over by the Chief Justice, Mr: Justice H, Gompertz, Mok Sing. aling Ching Kwong, was arraigned on the indictment of murdering Warder Speed on December 15, 1919.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Wrong Air, Franks used to punich, was only serving one "year,, went kim by taking off six taels from inside the Chief Warder's office and bis park allowance. Prisoner killed the Chief Warder and then admitted having made the key took his revolver. When they came produced in Court, but. had out, the Indian who, had also been. only done so at the request of pri- stabbed was making a noise and so soner No. 791, who told him he they stabbed him to death. Prisoner would rather be killed outside the then appealed to the jury and the goal, after he had escaped, than be committee who visited the gaol to killed inside. That was because he see that sufficient clothing and food was so badly treated. He tried to was supplied to the Chinese prisoners. dissuade No. 791 from escaping. That was all he had to say.. but when he was determined he agreed to go told the prisoner that his statement with him. On the morning in ques had been taken down and would. tion prisoner No. 850 came to his be forwarded in due course to H. E. doer and handed him a dagger the Governor. He then assumed and said "Be off." "guilty"

Number 791 the black cap and passed sentence and a short sentence prisoner, who of death.

The prisoner made the following etatement:

After the evidence of the various witnesses and the Judge's sum - ming up, the Jury, without retiring returned a verdict of Asked if he had anything to say the prisoner made a long state. ment in the course of which 'be' re ferred to the conditions which exist- ed in the gaol. He first of all ad mitted that be."did the deed” and said the other prisoner, No 791 was in the shoe-maker's shop, where he had been for seven years, serving a sentence of ten years' imprison- In an interview with an American ment. Continuing he said, "That Red Cross surgeon, who is passing prisoner has always complained that through Hongkong on his way to the he did not get enough food. I my- -United States, there was a note of self have been badly treated, not encouragement that the revolutionists having good food and clothing. The Siberia might be able to establish warders assaulted the prisoners for ΠΟ reasou at all. We were and and maintain a firm national]

given uncooked rice, and the government.

quantity was less than that to They which we were entitled.. were always being assaulted. The Government had some good regula tiers. They supplied the prisoners with rice, tea, sugar and off, but we were given "rotten" fish and food. The clothing was too thin for them to bear the cold weather. The cloth was the same thin stuff as that produced In spite of rumours which have in Court Condemned prisoners were persisted, that the Czar and his supposed to be served with certain family were not killed at Ekaterin- quantities of special food for thirty berg, the American Consul there, who days, but they did not get this food dwelt very close to the late Czar's until a few days before their execu residence, stated that he was as suretion. When the prisoners' grumbled as any man could be, who was not they were assaulted. The prisonera actually present at the scene of the of all nations, with the exception of murders, that the entire family bad Chinese, were supplied with sufficient been executed.

This surgeon travelled

across Siberia twice it connection with Red Cross work, and states that the living conditions in the interior for the the peasant class are abject in the extreme. Food, clothing and toel, all are very scarce, and the far famed roable, at the time he last visited the interior, was valued at three hundred to the gold dollar.

With the Koltchak government fallen, the only system of government remaining in most parts of Siberia, is the community government. Contrary to general belief, the Red Cross officer states that the country is not general- ly of the Red or, true "Bolshevist party. Most, not in the Red Army, are of the Social Democrat, or off the Co-operative Parties.

Some communities are held by the Social Democrats, who believe in representative government and are the remnants of the same party which forced the Duma,, or Parliament, upon the old Imperial Government. Others are in the hands of the local form co-operative citizens, who societies for government, hold town meetings, decide their own laws and operate their own trade.

The Co-operatives are, feally the people who are keeping Siberia alive, as the they go in for trade, buying and selling, thus creating opportuni ties for work, for circulation of

for supplies Currency and

food, clothing and fire to obtained.

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Where the true Bolshevists, or Reds, rule, it is a case of seize, eat all there is or band and then starve, or else resort to plunder and loot.

The officer stated that he believes. along with many others, that if the Allies will withdraw and leave. the country to itself, order will be restored and, possibly, a firm Siberian national government can be established.

All of the Allies are supposed to be withdrawing as fast as conditions will allow, but it is rumoured that the Japanese are still holding on and that many of them are buying up property but for what purpose no seems exactly to know.

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The vast quantities of military stores formerly stacked up at the Vladivostock terminal are rapidly being removed, and the seaport itself is beginning to stir into action; to take on a semblance, commercially, of its former busy self.

Water transportation for troopa leaving Sheria is said to be ade quate, but inland transport arrange- ments are very bad.

So little coal is being mined that trains cannot operate over the Trans- Siberian Railway in anything like the number needed. for the rapid evacuation of Allied troops.

From what this officer said it was aleaned that conditions, while cer tainly bad enough, are not half so bad now as they were six months or a year ago.

It is believed that if no untimely outbreaks take place, the Co-opera tives will be able to establish their" community governments on a busi nesi basis and from them develop a firm confederation for purposes of national government, at least for Siberia, even if not for, Western Russia

The tendency seems to be to break away from Western Russia altoge her and form a new country.

clothing and food. Mr. Franks did not look after things properly. To- bacco was sometimes smuggled into the gaol. Even if a man did nothing

TO-DAY'S

The prisoner: Its all right: I'm going to de, but what about the other Chinese prisoners in the gaol?

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