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Show IlPlflSllT PART KTl Seventy Constabularymen of Isles Plead Guilty to Sedition Charge MANILA. Dec. 22. Seventy members mem-bers of Philippine constabulary pleaded plead-ed guilty here Tuesday on charges of sedition In connection with tho riot with Filipino Manila police lasl Thursday Thurs-day night, which resulted In eleven deaths. si l A tlESISH CH K.l i Seven other cCnstahUlarj men arresf-: arresf-: ed In connection with the riot plead-j plead-j ed not guilty when arraigned. Ilear-I Ilear-I lug of the cases of the seven pleading ! not guilty was set for January 3. Sentence Sen-tence upon the seventy pleading will not bp pronounced until the trial of tho other seven Is completed. The maximum penalty for Sedition is ten years imprisonment. Murder charges against the COnStab-ularymen COnStab-ularymen will not be tried until the sedition charges arc dispose of. Attorney At-torney for the defense announced the constabularymen would plead not guilty guil-ty to the niurd. r charges and the cases would he fought through the highest courts if necessary. Complaints have been filed in the court of the first instance" ohargmg thp Beveniy-seven constabularymen vvllh assassination and conspiracy In connection con-nection with the fatal riots. OOMFLvVlK is ISSUED The complaint alleged that the constabulary con-stabulary soldiers "voluntarily, illegally illeg-ally and criminally, tbr the purpose of killing sui h members of the police. force .l Manila as they should enCOIUt- ler, conspired together and soldierly marched in military formation and In separate squads through the streets of the wall. d cit;,. posting themselves at strategic places from which with malice mal-ice aforethought, they attacked members mem-bers of the Manila police force, who were complying with their duty as guardians f th, peace, firing upon them and Inflicting inort::l wounds up. on four members of the police besides various others." . The seventy-seven accused constabularymen constab-ularymen are. confined lit the Bllibld prison. The Philippine constabulary enlisted enlist-ed personnel IS composed entirely of Filipinos. The Manila police force coiilatiH a number of American officers offi-cers and a few American patrolmen, hut the, majority of patrolmen are Fi- iplnos. The riot grew out of the killing last lhursTla. in;,m or a constabulary private pri-vate by a Filipino policeman when the con;;tabularymun atlacJ;. d the police-njan police-njan with a knife. The attack was I provoked by Ul-feellng on the part of' the constabularyman resulting from alleged mistreatment and abuse of the Wife of a constabularyman arrested iy the poll. the preceding Sunday. Ill-feeling ha.i exist, d between the Philippine constabulary, and the Man-I Man-I Ha police for some time, according to constabulary officers, and it frequently frequent-ly reached acute stages. uo- . |