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APPENDIX "A",
Extract from the "Peking Gazette" 20, 12/15. 360
THE A'S CASE IN SANGHAI .
THRITY ONE THOUSAND GER AM RIFLES
RITORIOUS QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION.
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Last "ednesday in the Shanghai "ixed Court, before Magistrates Yu and "r. Grant Tones, British Assessor, Yau Ching-foo, Tong Yong-tsang, Chan Ah-chau, Taoo Ling-yi and Teeung Yeang-ling were charged with having on December 2nd attempted to sell firearm in the International Settlement of Shanghai without having obtained a licence from the Municipal Council to do so, contrary to by-law 34, and further with conspiring to keep certain military arme, to wit, rifles, without official permission, contrary to section 204 of the Chinese Criminal Code.
Mr. E.E. Newman appeared for the prosecution, Mr. G.D. Musso watched the case on behalf of the Chinese Government and "r. H.D. Rodger defended one of the accused.
Mr. Newman, reports the North China Daily News, said that the case was one of the most difficult that he had ever known. The first two were carrying on negotiations quite apart from the other three but they ultimately met together and treated with the police agent who eventually effected their arrest. The evidence which he would put before the Court was very short. An interpreter of the Central Police Station would explain that in consequence of certain information received, he met four of the defendants, They were arrested in a tea shop and the fifth was apprehended in the mouth of an alleyway. The interpreter had negotiations with two of the
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