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FFICES, ROOMS, and GODOWNS en Ground and Second Floors, No. 14, Des Voux Road Central, the Premises now occupied by the South China Morning Feet, Limited.

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THE CANTON QURRENOY

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DE. KOGA, HUCCESSFUL ON APPEAL.

Judgment was given recently in the |Tokyo" Appeal Court in what is known us the Canton Currenty Forgery Case, in which Dr. Kága, o-Director of the Polico Affairs Bureau, was implicated.

Dr. Koga End bean woutenced to three years penal servitude in the Tokyo Chiho Saibansho some time ago, appealed against the verdict. Voeg

but

The judgment now delivered in the Appeal Court revokes the decision of the lower Curt, the accused boing acquitted on the ground of insufficiency of evidence.

In a loading article on the case the Japan Chronicle says

The acquittal of Dr. Kugu, though

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 19TH, 1914.

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satisfactory as evidence of the possibility of getting justico in in Appeal Court, helps to bring into greater salience the exceedingly unsatisfactory manner in which criminal charges are tried in the Courts in Japan. It is no question hero of a foreigner complaining that he (or a

Japanese for that matter would get MERCURY

or German Court

fairer treatment in a British, American, LOOSE

the

first glanoga trial and conviction of "Dr. "I appeared highly creditable, recalling old Will Adams commendation, ⠀⠀ ** Their justice is severely executed without any partiality upon transgressors of the law. Dr. Koga was Director of the Police Bureau, u man of considerable standing and influence, and his conviction (certainly bore the aspect of a stern and impartial administration of justice. From tho beginning, however, the ovidence was not such as would have satisfied anybody who had no interest in ɓnding him guilty. It appeared quito certain that a good part of the business regarding the Kwangtung note forgeries

was transacted actually in his house, and there is no doubt that the principal forger, Furukawa, used his name freely, Furukawa was caught in Hongkong, and by the British · Court imprisoned there. No direct statement of his inplicating Dr. Koga, was published, but a Japanese Procurator was sup posed to have taken a great deal of evidence from the prisoners in the handa of the Hongkong Government, Furu kawa was a sort of semi-dependant of Dr. Koga, and had the free run of his His fellow-forgers testified that house. they had supposed that Dr. Koga was getting a share in the proceeds of the for- geries, but none directly implicated him, and it was not shown that he had had any

It was, of hand in the transactions.

very supicious circumstance course, that a good deal of the business was conducted in Dr. Koga's house, but that. Road,might have been only the artfulness of Furukawa The idea that Dr. Koga was a sort of legal adviser to the forgers never appeared at all credible, and the samples given of his opinions regarding the criminal operations were not such. would have been expected of a man of his erudition and worldly wisdom. The entire lack of direct

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to show that Dr.dence would tend

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been, uncommonly careful to cover up his tracks, but the Procuretor prostathion. SCOTS Was only coststent with Dr. Koga's guilt on the suposition that, along with this care, he had run great and unneces sary risks by no means an unknown failing in a criminal, but one which is not to be presumed except on irrefragabl evidence.

As a prosecution story, the Procurator's more or less imaginary narrative was open to no grent objection. There were ample grounds for Dr. Koga's prosecu tion, and there was a reasonable chaner of his guilt. It was the prosecution's

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it could, and it made a creditable job of

it The Court, however, as happens so often, found the prosecution story credible, and forgot that before it was to bo accepted it must be supported by

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Passengers may go and/or return vrA MANILA without additional charge by steamers the unusually harsh treatment to which

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of which he complained with some bitter-

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prisoner. During the seven months that have followed, Furukawa, the chief forger, has been sent back to Japan, since the not act Hongkong authorities did sufficient store on him to induce them to let him die of consumption on their bands. What sort of evidence, if any, he has given singe his return has not been stated, it would not seem to anybody reading the published accounts of the trial that any assistance from Furukawa was needed for showing that there was a lack of evidence of the character that

for

condemning should be necessary fo man to penal servitude. Even if Furu- kawa's testimday was accessary it might baye heen taken and considered with a promptness that would have saved Dr Kogo a good part of the seven months that he has been under sentences

In this, as in any other cases, not only does it seem dearable that radical changes should be made in the judicial systent, but there are signs that the worst, rather than the best, is being made of the existing organisation.

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The report that 39 per cont. of well-to-do children have decayed teeth is said to be too low a figuro, and 70 per cent. was cited as nearer the mark; and sweet for this port on the 10th May, at 9 p.m., The P. & O. str. Vellore left Singapore Again were held to be responsible. Four children have to be content with hard and is due here on the 18th May, at about boiled sweets which are crushed to pieces 6 pm

by the teeth, while children higher in thủ The H.A.L. str. Sambiu left Manila on An interesting report issued by the social scale eat chocolates, caramels, and the 10th May, p.m., and may be expected Education Department of the London soft fondants that cling to the teeth, and here on or about the 13th May, expected County Council sets forth that there is a cause fermentation and decay,_____

But much of the evil would be eradicat- The str. Dilwara, from Robe, left Moji larger percentage of boys than girls with bad teeth, and that 39 per cent of child- ed if not only children but all persons on the 11th May, a.m., and may be ex- ren of well-to-do parents suffer from were to eat an apple at the end of each pected here on or about the 14th May, at decayed teeth, as compared with 27 per meal, as by that means the teeth would noon.

be left perfectly clean. Crusts and other The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan left Humphreys.cent of poorer children.

· A Standard representative who made food that require inquiry at the Royal Dental Hospital was also beneficial, gown Wastication are Yokohama on tho Sin May, between 2 and informed that sweets are the root of most Dr. Sims Wallace, late of the dental

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