PEKING INCIDENT
ASSAULT IN JAPANESE HIIVATE COOKE ACQUITTED. PEKING, July 5. (Received July 6, at 1.30 a.m.) Private Cooke was acquitted. [A previous message stated: —The Peking correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ saya that Mr Fitzmaurice (British Consul), after announcing that there was insufficient • evidence against Privates Cooke and Hunt, of the military police, as regards the death of Lieutenant Sasaki, said a prima facie case existed against Cooke regarding an assault on a Japanese named Onishi, whom he is alleged to have assaulted about midnight, while Sasaki was fiksaulted half an hour later. Cooke pleaded not guilty.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 9
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97PEKING INCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 9
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