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MR. CHEN ARGUES.

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"CALLED ON DEATH."

SIX MONTHS FOR FORGED NOTES.

The main who was arrested March 7 when leaving Sal On with $4,990

policy of the Nationalist Govern- ment. The proper authorities of! the Nationalist Army of course on will be instructed to give not the only a written undertaking in this worth of Hongkong Bank sense but to see that effective notes on him, was again brought measures are taken to afford pro- up this morning before "Mr. R. E. per protection of foreign lives and Lindsell.. property.

A Chinese revenue officer said

The Nationalist Government, that he was on search daty when however, would be lacking in can- the Sai On came alongside the dour If it failed to regard and wharf. He noticed among the emphasize that the best guarantee passenger a man who looked fur- for the affective protection of lively around, and stopped the American and other foreign lives man, who at the time was carry- and property lies in the removal ing an umbrella in one hand and of the fundamental cause of the a small parcel in the other. present trouble between Nation- alist China and the Powers, who continue to sustain the unequal

treaties.

Witness opened the parcel and found that it contained nothing but two tins of tea. He prised open the lid of one tiri and noticed some tea leaf, He then dug his It is these unequal treaties finger into the tea and felt some- which constitute the chief danger thing hard. At this moment the to foreign lives and property in defendant "called on Death to China; and the danger will per- help him." This increased the sist as long as effective govern-officer's suspicion, and he poured ment is rendered difficult by for-out the contents of the tin and eign insistence on a condition found the notes. Revenue Officer which at once is a humiliation and Ward, who came along at this menage, to a Nation which has time, was told what had happened, known greatness and to-day is con- and the owner of the notes was scious of a renewal of strength. taken to the police station.

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that from what he saw he felt cer- between Nationalist pending

tain that that was so. The man China and the United States on also grovelled on the ground after terma which assure the legitimate the notes were discovered, and interests of both countries and re- called loudly for Death to relieve ciprocity in their relations."-- Canton Gazette.

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him.

Mr. J. B. Milne, an assistant of the Ifongkong and Shanghai Bank, said that he had examined 409 banknotes of $10 each, and they were forgeries of the notes issued by his bank.

Good Forgeries. Mr. Lindsell: Better ones than usual?

Witness: Yes, they have got the more than 300,000 troops imme- right signatures for the right diately available. The now gov-series. By a strange co-incidence, ernment desires the friendship of only on the notes which are signed all countries but insists on the with my name they have slipped abrogation of unequal treaties, out. Reuter,

DELEGATES TO CANTON.

Arrested at, Tokyo.

Mr. Lindsell: You have no idea. where thesu might have been made.......No.

Witness added that he was asked to say that when the case was over the Bank would like the notes back, to have them destroyed. His Wor- order will be made for the police to. ship informed the witness that an confiscate and destroy the notes in

due course.

Tokyo, April 20. Considerable excitement Was caused yesterday evening when the police unexpectedly arrested the Japanese delegates to the Pacifie Labour Conference at Canton,

Sub-Inspector Lane said that just as the train was leaving the

оп the instructiona of Mr. atulion.

T H. Xing. D.S.P., he fili- Large crowds of workers who ed one of the tea tins with were seeing the delegates off de- tea leaf and found it to weigh a monstrated when the arrests were little over 1 h. and 9 ounces, while made, and as a result the police took more people into custody.

the same tin filled with half the notes weighed 2 lbs. 10 ounces, a difference of well over a pound,

Another Man,

It is understood that ex-Premier Wakatsuki had approved of the felerates' participation in the Con-

Defendant made a statement in ference. Consequently, the sud- den action of the police is "appa-to the effect that he was asked by the police station when arrested, rently due to the change of Ga-} binet-Reuter,

HUGE "RED" ARMY.

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a man who was travelling on the same boat to take two tina ashore for him.

Mr. Lindsell: Can you explain why it was necessary for him to ask you to carry such a small par- cel.

Defendant did not reply, where- upon his Worship added: If you cannot explain you will have to go to jail.

drunken and exceedingly ignorant. and everyone is too absorbed in

Defendant then said that the the struggle for existence to pu much attention to politics.

man must have had guilty know- "The ignorance and misunder ledge. The arrangement was for standing of the Western world, the defendant to meet this un- door of the ever among educated Communists known man at the and the old intelligentala, who Tung Fong boarding house.

Mr. Lindsell: were brought up as patriots and

That's extra- have not forgotten Anglo-Russian ordinary, why did you not tell that rivalries, is incredible.

to the police? They would have taken you to find the man at once. Defendant: I told that to the police the next morning.*

"Their attitude is often a queer mixture of persecutionmania and megalomania,

"They are under the delusion that every diplomatic conference meots to discuss them; they do not realize how far they have droppe... out of European society."

Mr. Lindsell: It was too late If you were so innocent, then. you would have told them at once. Defendant was sentenced to Bix months' imprisonment.

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