Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-07 | Page 8 | Mariners Jailed for Arms Trading

I MARINERS JAILED FOR ARMS TRADING HONG KONG. Dec. 7 fBy Tho Associated Press) An engineer nnd radio operator of the steamship President Pres-ident Jackson have- been sentenced to six months Imprisonment on a charge of trading in arms. HANKOW, China. Dec. 7. (By The Associated Trees;. At a consular court hearing Wednesday on the seizure seiz-ure by Rear Admiral Phelps, commander com-mander of the American wanfhtpp on 1 the Yangtse, of six alrplan u destined for thu Chinese military Tor. es. It was developed that the planes were landed land-ed at Hankow on a customs permit issued by the minister of war. The customs documents classified tin-planes tin-planes as munitions, The purchase of the planes was financed by the Hongkong Hong-kong Shanghai bank. James Slevin. an American, arrested arrest-ed In connection with the seizure, is charged with violation of the arms mbargo agreement of 1919 and the resident's proclamation of March, 19,22, regarding the trading in arms. 00