ל
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934.
CHASE BANK SUEDİ
FOR $17,357
As Transferees Of Equitable Eastern.
CHINESE OFFICIAL'S DEPOSIT IN 1928
A claim against the Chase Bank Inc., as transferees of the Equit able Eastern Banking Corporation. by Tam Fon, alias Tam Cheuk-yael came before the Acting Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Supreme Court this morn ing,
The plaintiff, Tum Fo alas Tam Cheuk-yue, is claiming a
of $17,357.27, lbeing money depo-it-j ed with the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation, and interest
at the rate of three per cent per annam.
Mr. Ekion Potter, K., instruct- ed by Messrs. Lo and Lu appeurodi for the plaintiff while Mr. Dunran MeNell. assisted by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, arpared for the dete dants.
Mr. Potter, outlining is case. maid his client's claim was as a de-, posito the Equitable Banking 4 terparation.
Eastern
The lain-
tiff had been, and sill was, em-1 ployed by the Chinese Government, and was at present holding a posi tion as Head at the Ifquor and Tobacen Revenge Thepariment at Swalow
The plaintif first made a depamát with the Eastern Equitate Bank- ing Corporation in December. 1927. when he placed $1,000 in a Savingsį Bank Account and was issued with
a passbook, No. 352.
by
In order to show that this was not the only depasite made plaintiff, counsel quoted three others:
(Fl
THE CHINA MAIL.
America's Air Armada
At San Diego.
The six American Nayy dying-beats which lust month made the longest non-stop nuss formation light on record, by flying 2,948 miles, from California to Hawait. (Inset) Some of the pilota, with the Commander, Lieat.-Commander Knefler McGinnis (left).
Naval Curosities
Singapore
At
"The Terror" And "The
Fastnet'
A “WADDLE" ACROSS THE
RADIATOR-CAP · PILFERERS
Three More Cases In Court Yesterday.
TWO MEN GAOLED, ONE REMANDED
un-
Prosecuting an unemployed Chin- ese, Fung Ping-wan, at the Central Magistracy this morning for lawful possession of a motor Car radiator-cap, Detective prpector J. Murphy told the Court that the de fendant was arrested in Hollywood Road; with the cap. in his pocket. He admitted that he hud stolen it: from a car in Chater Road and gave, the number of the car.
The ownership was subsequently traced to Major J. A. A. Griffin, of the Lincolnshire Regiment, but ̧"it] was found that Major Griffin had since sold the car and left for Home
The Inspector asked for a short] remand so that the new owner of the car could be found.
Thursday, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, the In adjourning the case until
Magistrate, suggested that it would be a good idea to have the number days, another storm broke and the of the car to which it belonged in- two vessels put into Malta where scribed on every radiator-cap in they stayed for a few days till the case it should be lost. weather improved and the omens · Theft At University.
indicated a fine spell ahead.
Chan Sam, another unemployed
They got to Port Said without Chinese, pleaded guilty to theft of more excitement and filled up with a radiator-cap from car No. 185, fuel for the trip through the Canal. owned by Professor W. Fald, of the Coming through the Canal the Hong Kong University, while it was Terror had an adventure that might|parked in Lyttleton Road. have had serious consequences. The Magistrate naked if the car She had been tied up to allow had been left in an authorised `park” ship to pass when a tow rope was ing-place, because many cases arose Past off too soon
from cars not being left in a proper place.
Across The Canal
The huge lumbering 11) 2.58
3
of
Professor Fald replied that it was
WORLD animated ironmongery swung slow the usual park for all University
It look the monitor, Terrur, and aurance money paid out.
The
vessel
cars.
ly round bows on to the bank on one alde while the stern swivalled Accused was sentenced to thrée $10,000 deposited with the Bank the trawler, Fastnel, nearly four But the resources of the British crab-wise till it scraped the sandy months' hard labour. of East Asia on January 11, 1928;months to reach Singapore from Navy are nearly illimitable. The banks on the other side-broadside.
Pokfulam Case. $10,000 with the Yokohama Specie Plymouth. They are to be attach-wreck was bought from the com-cross the Canal with bow and stern
Chan Pun, also unemployed, was Bank as a Savings Arrount
ed to the permanent establishment pany and the Navy went out to touching.
actually sentenced to three months" hard January 14, 1928; and a further
at the Naval Base.
Ireland, prised the hulk loose from went aground, but was soon refloat- labour for stealing a radiator-cap $10,000 with the latter Rank
The journey was full of incident the rocks, patched
ed and no damage was done.
from car No. 2373, owned by Mr. up what was January 20, 1928.
and is described as one of the most left of the engines and brought
It was, after this incident that Leung Choy, while it was parked 'in' The history of the deposit said notable voyages ever made by two the relics back to Britain.
the ship's songster celebrated' the
Pokfulum Road. counsel, was as follows: On Janu-which was designed for voyages of tank her place beside
extremes of naval units, neither of And in due course the Fastnet casion by producing the now ary 17, 1928, plaintiff deposited this kind,
that other popular lyric, "Riding on the Terror maritime curiosity, the Terror, and in the Desert," which is sung When the Terror, whose 15 inson October 8, 1933, the two of them without fee or licence wherever the look down on Singapore like a began that historic waddle across participants of this unique voyage built nobody ever thought of her unchronicled, except probably, in pair of gigantle field-glasses, was the world to Singapore, until now meet.
further than to bombard the Ger- where as ever leaving her natives shores the archives of the Admiralty
these curious adventures to Bombay. That the weather
with the Savings Bank Department of the Eastern Equitable Banking Corporation, known to him as the “Tai Tung_ Bank," the sum of $14 800, and in return received from an assistant a passbook numbered
671.
He was asked for a speci-man lines behind the Belgian coast. may have a specialised meaning. men signature, which he submift-
That was the function for which! ed.
From Aden another uneventful| but slow run brought the convoy
was good was fortunate for theret she was built a flat-bottomed, un-probably end her days at Singapore, tropical storm, not to mention the Like the Terror, the Fastnet will in no data as to just how a ship like On March 9, 1928, the plaintif
the Terror will react to a really Leak up an appointment as Head wieldy monster, all beam and
no another curioua speed-a fish-wife among the slim, scene, from the storm-mddled Arc for that sort of thing.
transformation
Fastnet which was never meant: elegant, corsalted craisers and de- tic rocks to running Liberty men
The company spent Christmas in read in the papers of the American the high seas at anything up banking crisis and of the runs on forty knots an hour."
of the Department for Military Expenditure at Swatow.
In November 1932 the plaintiftroyers which rule the fashions of through these tropic palm-fringed Bombay and still feel that Bombay
banks and decided to withdraw his deposit from the American bunks.
now
und interest on the
until payment or judgment,
to straits eighty miles from the
Equator.
And now, almost if not quite tho first of her kind, she comes to Sin-
at 2
of
Storms At The Start
The decks were
an" adventure
is one of the nicest places to spend Christmas in.
Repairs In Sumatra From Colombo, it was decided to
nn
Some-
It was a gloomy day when the be with deck chairs making their
Down the Indian coast to Colom On November 23, 1932, the plato-apore to end her days, almost if two vessels left Plymouth
not nobody who had a hand in her most immediately they got outside ing that at last this seemingly in
and al- tiff called on the Chase Bank, as
appearance and the pleasant feel- building successors to the Equitable East-
or designing ever con- they ran into rough weather which terminable voyage was really near- ern Banking Corporation, and
sidered even as a possibility. de
lasted practically all the way acrossing its end. manded repayment of his original | Torpedoed Three Times
the Channel and down the Bay of deposit of $14,800, with accumu-. Among all the strange melamor-Biscay. The huge beam of the lated interest, but the defendants phones that protecting the world's Terror with her enormous anti-complete the trip in one final lap. refused payment and have contino-greatest Empire must create there torpedo bulges, was not suited for But it was not to be. ed to do so.
is none stranger than this.
That this sort of" ocean and she
There was The plaintiff
the the vessel the cialms
Germans
con still to be another halt. The little couldn't tinually shipped huge seas while Festnet sum of $17,357.21, money deposited, ink-the Terror was
torpedoed the little trawler bobbed about like showed signs of distress.
strugkling" gamely um at the three times during the war-um- a cork in the corkscrew wake of the where between Colombo and Penang rate of three per cent. per annumbers across half the oceans of the lumbering monster in front of her she sprang a leak, and the convoy
world to rust, metaphorically, All plaintiff's deposits with the course, as a depot ship at Seletar tinually awash' and the seething for repairs." The little vessel was almost con had to put into Sahang, in Sumatra, various banks were made in
the with occasional awkward lurching water found its way into unexpect temporarily patched up and at last. name of Tam Foo. During 1928 round to Singapore as she
once ed places, It was there was much political unrest in lurched across to the Belgian coast getting from one part of the deck months the storm tossed couple of after"s voyage" lasting nearly four Canton and, as a means of safe to fire her: 2,000 Ib. messages of to another, clinging to a stanchion martine curiosities limbed into guarding his money,' plaintiff made concentrated hate
hidden while one" wave broke ́inboard and Singapore where the Fastnet Im- these deposita in Hong Kong.
Jenemy.
bolting into a companion way be mediately went into dockyard to Continuing, counsel said that Her voyage out to Singapore fore the next 'one arrived." after the plaintiff - bad, been "refus-}roada like one of the voyages of thei
get her leak below the water-line Even at this early stage new ar-permanently attended to ⚫ed payment he was taken to asailing ships of the Raffles era.]-s European official of the bank who Certainly there can have been few sengera" had to be made to meet must be one of the most unusual rangements for the crew and "pas- The two vessels have shared what informed him that no such sum as er longer voyages to the East since the unexpected conditions. Among trips ever undertaken by units of he claimed had been deposited with the invention of the steamship) and the Equitable Eastern Banking the building of the Suez Canal- the passengers, were 52 boys under the British Navya and though lack Corporation, and that any passbook
18 years of age- from the training] Ing in some of the more spectacu To do the Terror justice--and we that had been issued was not gen-world not offend a ship's company hip at Shotley coming out for the lar elements. It has features that uine. The European offered to which has grown to love its ungain,
first time to be distributed among certainly deserve to be chronicled. take plaintiff to the Bank's solicity and unbeautiful home after their the vessels: on the East Indies And Singapore will appreciate the tors, but he refused and instead eventful achievement together it station. Their quarters were so histórie qualified of? went to Messrs. Lo and Lo for ad-was not all her fault, that the voy continually flooded that they had to dilions to its Naval ent vice. As a result of his consulta-age out took so long. For the be moved to a dryer and loss salta- tlon a mass of correspondence (ex-Terror was, accompanied by the tory situation. hibited) came into being."
trawler, Fastnet, which was more After six days of 'this weather Plaintiff's solicitors wrote to the responsible for the delay than the the gale moderated and the reat of Chase Bank' informing them of the Terror.
therth to Gibralter was compé deposit and circumătances
From Iceland's Rocks tively uneventful!" rounding it land on November 28, And, on the Fastnet also hangs Three Weeka In Dock 1982, received' q'reply from the a tale. In the days when the The Fastnet, however, had auf- Bank to the effect that they did not Fastnet, fulfilled her trawlerish gred rather badly and had to go admit any lability, as the deposit function of catching fah, her re-into the dockyard for repairs which had not been made and any 'pass-gular" "beat! was, to the toeming delayed the convoy for three weeks, book, plaintiff possessed had been seas around. Iceland. In one wild The two vessels were at Gibralter, ducing gold 89, Issued without authority and had Arctic, gale she went ashore on the while the destroyers for Australia valued at £169, not been Initialled by a European rocks of Iceland and the crow were which passed through Singapore received at the Roya member of the bank stan, Für rescued" with "dimently after, great about two months ago, were ther thermore the bank÷had”no” spoel-jhardah) The little vodi
men of plaintiff's signature. The "drm up even by the Insurance.com
of the
od-
WEST AUSTRALIA'S
GOLD OUTPUT:
£169,675,650 Received
At Royal Mint
Perth, West Since West Australia beren pro-
stralia.
‚ounces,
boen
Commencing-To-morrow at the CENTRAL
THE FIRST OF THE; BIG PICTURES AT THE SPECIALLY REDUCED PRICES!
SOS ICEBERG
LOVE SENT HER PLUNGING THROUGH- THE SKIES. Radng her....... plans to the rescue of the man she loved; marooned withs four others on a crumbling les berg in Greenland's Arctic wastos!· ...CRASHI.....The plane in fames against the side of the iceberg .........A beautiful woman trapped on the berg with five desper ate meni... WHAT A PICTURE!
WWW ROD LA ROCQUE, LENI RIEFENSTAHL, Gabor Gets. Landy Ernst Udet. Story by Dr. Arnold Fanch. Music by Paul Dessen Directed by Tey Garnett, Produced under ampices of Danish Governerant and Knud Rasmussen, noted Polar explorer. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
THE FOLLOWING NEW ADMISSION PRICES:-
DRESS CIRCLE
BACK STALL
FRONT STALL
UPPER CIRCLE
$1.10
.80
35
35
SERVICEMEN 40 Cts. TO BACK STALLS.
THE HEART OF A BUILDING
SANITARY,
Gloucester Jockey Club Gr Victoria: Ho Hồng
IS THE
CENTRAL HEATING
AND
DOMESTIC HOT WATER
INSTALLATION
THOSE DESIGNED & INSTALLED
BY
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Standa
Clab
· Matilda"Hostiltal St. Stephen's Repulse Bay Hotel
Include
Seamen's Institute Ear Ring Cl German Club Cricket Club
Aigburth Hall!
8.C.M.P, Building
Katherine Building'
ROYAL NAVAL CANTEEN"
Mountain Lodge
War Memorial Nursing Home Alice Memorial Hospital
Diocean Boys' School
Jockey Club Stables
Tang Wah Hospital Oriental Hotel
Your Job is as important as any of the above. See that it is not ruined by a small saving in initial cost, "Cheap" Jobs cause endless trouble to Architects and Owner
REMEMBER THE THREE REASONS WHY WE SECURED THE ABOVE JONS,
Systems designed by Experts, with many years' local experience. Work executed by our own staff, under European Supervision. 3. All systems designed to reduce maintenance charges,
*22
(case is proceeding.
"and"