THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1940 ́
WINSTON--20 DAYS! GRACE
The Appelato Division of the New York Supreme Court re- cently gave Mr. Winston Chur- chill twenty days to answer a
£250,000 slander suit brought by ' William Griffin, a New York newspaper proprietor.
The action was based upon an alleged denial by Mr. Church!!! of an Interview In 1936 with Griffin when Mr. Churchilf was sald to have asserted: "It was all a mistake for you (the United States) to enter the world war. -Associated Press.
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LOCAL DUTCH FIRM SUED
DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED AFTER THE FALL OF CANTON-IN- 1938 IN DELIVERING CASSIA, UN- DER CONTRACTS BETWEEN LOCAŁĄ FIRMS WERE MENTIONED AT THE SUPREME COURT, THIS MORNING BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ATHOLL MACGREGOR,, WHEN SANG WO-TAI, OF HONG KONG. AND CANTON, WAS PLAINTIFF IN A CASE AGAINST MESSRS. HOLLAND CHINA TRADING CO.
Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. P. H. Sin was, for the plaintiff firm and Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada Jr.. in- structed by Mr. T. J. Prior was for the defendant firm.
Mr. Potter said plaintiffs had en
SHANGHAI DRIVE FOR tered into seven contracts with defen-
$1,000,000
Shanghai, To-day,
dant firm for the delivery of 870 bales® of cassia from August 3 to October 5, 1938. The contracts were made on dif- A campaign to raise $1,000,000 to ferent dates and at different prices ac- finance cheap rice sales for the bene-cording to the ruling market prices fit of the city's poor will be launched but all were of the same quality, in the near future with the co-opera- tion of businessmen, relief commit- tees and city officials.
Public contributions will be sought in a big charity drive to relieve the plight of many thousands of poor and anderfed, Members of the committee handling sales of rice have already personally subscribed
than $300,000, and it is expected the rest will be obtained among business guilds,
more
Rice sales will be discontinued un- til the full sum is raised. It is said the sales are held at big losses to the com- mittee,
Mr. Yu Ya-ching, chairman of the 'committee and prominent business- man and philanthropist, revealed the committee had petitioned the National Government for foreign exchange at Government rates so that the purchase price of rice from Saigon would be
lower.-Reuter.
GAMING DEN EARNED $4,000 A MONTH A gambling den, the income which was alleged to be about $4,000 per month at No. 208, Temple Street, third floor, was raided last night.
of
As a result, Wong Ngau, 41, was charged with keeping a gaming house; possession of 1,664 "Fo Piu" lottery tickets; having a printing ma- chine without a licence; and with printing the tickets.
Det.-Sgt. J. Johnston, who carried out the raid, told the Magistrate that he saw a 11-year-old boy, defendant's son, helping accused in printing the tickets.
Pleading guilty to all charges, Wong Ngau was fined $650, or six months' hard labour,
SIX WEEKS FOR STEALING UMBRELLA For the theft of an umbrella from Mr. T. Bolt, of the Public Works De- partment, Ng Wing, 24, unemployed, was sentenced to six weeks' hard la- bour by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., at the Central Magistracy this morning.
It was alleged that defendant took the umbrella from car No. 2119, which parked outside the British. Bicycle Company in Hennessy Road yester- day.
was
Complainant
driving along Queen's, Road East near the Royal Naval Dockyard when he saw defen- dant walking with the umbrella in his hand And, arrested the man.
SUICIDE ATTEMPTS -
When fighting broke out in Can- ton it was impossible to ship cassia from Canton. Cassia is grown prin- cipally in Kwangsi and Kwangtung but the goods come to Hong Kong through Canton.
own
On November 25 the Cassia dealers: guild informed the various exporters that owing to abnormal traffic from Canton and through no fault of their
unable they were
to deliver cassia in Hong Kong.
Eventually some cassia was able to get through by Kongmoon and Kwang- chowwan but later when Kongmoon was also occupied this avenue was Delivering of cassia to also closed. Hong Kong through Kwangchow-wan entailed an additional expense of $13 per picul.
The two parties had several inter- views and it was suggested that the
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Defendants were willing to pay an additional $4 or $5 but this fell though when Kongmoon was taken. After für- ther discussions it was agreed that the goods be sent by Kwang Chow-wan and that $11 per picul would be paid for transportation.
An agreement was signed on June 9 between the parties in which the quantity and price of cassia on the seven contracts were mentioned and at the bottom the extra $11 was men- tioned.
The plaintiff's asks for à déclaration that they are discharged from liability under the seven contracts and that they be paid the sum of $8,000. De- fendants contend that Plaintiffs are liable under seven contracts and that the agreement of June § was a dia tinct and further contract.
Defendants have in respect of the 870 bales delivered and paid plaintiff $10,036.90...and in breach of said agreement have refused to pay plain- tiff a balance of $8,000.
Mr. Potter said that the agreement called for exactly the same number of bales with the same marks as in the and at different seven contracts
lower than the prices which were prevailing price.
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seven contracts were destined for different parts, of the world, including Palestine, Fin- land and Algeria and called for the same amount of bales as in the agreement.
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Two registered multsai, Ng Kwan-Two unemployed Chinese
charged before Mr. T. J. Houston at hi and Yuk Fook-hi, both of Yam Pothe Central Magistracy this morning Fong Street, were admitted to the Kowloon Hospital after they had tried to compalt suicide by taking a dose of poison.
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with manufacturing cigarettes without a licence near Cross Street yesterday. Sergeant Hewitt told the Court that defendants made the cigarettes, from cigarette ends, picked up in streets.
The cigarettes were analysed and found to contain cholera and diptheria bacteria.
Defendants were fined $25, or one, month's hard labour.
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