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KP AND CB: ATTENTION MR. KEATING, COLONIAL OFFICE, ALSO.

HONGKONG JUDICIAL SYSTEM REVISED.

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JAPANESE TELEGRAPH SERVICE (DOMET IN ENGLISH FOR EUROPE. 13.57. 18.10.43.

HONGKONG: THE GOVERNMENT-GENERAL OF HONGKONG, UNDER DATE OF 15TH OCTOBER, DECREED THE REVISION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM WHEREBY A PUBLIC PROCURATOR'S OFFICE AND A CRIMINAL COURT OF THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT-GENERAL HAD BEEN CREATED. OFFENSES

OTHER THAN THOSE DIRECTLY PERPETRATED AGAINST THE ARMY WILL BE TRIED AT THE NEWLY CREATED CRIMINAL COURT, WHILE OFFENSE AGAINST, THE ARMY WILL BE TRIED BY COURT MARTIAL. SIMULTANEOUSL

SIMULTANEOUSLY A DETAILED CRIMINAL ORDINANCE PROVIDING PUNISHMENT FOR VARIOUS CRIMES HAS BEEN

PUBLISHED.

ONE NOTEWORTHY FEATURE OF THE PRESENT REVISION 'IS THE FACI THAT HOARDING AND GRUDGING SALE OF DAILY NECESSITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROFITEERING WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED."1 II

CB.B.C. MONITORING). +++14.47. 18.10. 'WO.

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