THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940.
DISGUISED HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
Successful Appeal AS POLISH
To Statute Of Limitations
AT THE SUPREME COURT this morning, Bagh Singh, money lender, failed in a case in which he sued Ho Sai-man, of No. 3, Lower Castle Road, for $28,800, $12,000 advanced on two promissory notes in 1931 and interest for 70 months at two per cent. per month.
Plaintiff Mr. Percy Mr. B. C. dant was
George She, instructed
F. Zimmern.
was paying instalments on judgment.
SOLDIER
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital
.$50,000,000
Issued and Fully Paid-up...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:--
Sterling
Hong Kong Gurrency Re-
· serve
A nineteen-year-old Reserve: Liability of Pro- French student, who has
FINER THAN just joined the air unit of HUMAN
HAIR
that
In increasing demand by overseas Answering Mr. Chen, witness users, who require it for the purely said that he did not leave the peaceful and domestic purposes of Colony because of the many sum-
J
priciora
..£ §,500,000
$10,000,000
.$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: H. V. Wilkinson, Esq., Chairman..
General de Gaulle's French Legion, told a London reporter that there are hundreds of youths like himself still in A. II. Compton, Esq., . E. Pearoo, Esq.,
Hon, Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman.
J: K. Bourfield, Esq., K. S. Morrison, Esq.
Hon. Mr. S. H.- C. C. Roborte, Esq.,
Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L. G. Miskin, Esq..
Shields “Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,
Chief Manager.
Batavia
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Steel wool, the strands of which France who are anxious are sometimes finer than human to fight on. hair, is being manufactured in He is M. Patrice Dupont-Cail-|
to who got by In 1930, he was earning from was. represented
England by disguising $40,000 to $50,000 a year but he Britain night and day to satisfy lard, of Le Havre,
himself Amoy Chen, instructed by
Bangkok as a Polish soldier.. Hobbs, while defen-had put the money in the busi-the double demand of national de-
"At Bordeaux there were police Bombay Mr. ness and lost.
fence and export. represented by
In reply to Mr. She, witness
cordons guarding the approaches Caleusta by Mr.
It is used extensively as an
"Canton to the quay where the boat_lay,' said he paid no interest on the
Chafoo "Only Polish soldiers Colombo In his defence, Mr. She pleaded loans. He was sued for the third jabrasive in engineering processes he said.
from the away
were allowed to Daimn and in air conditioning apparatus in uniform that the Statute of Limitations loan. He was
Several of my companions phong
Foochow applied in this case and the debt.Colony at the time and when he
returned found that judgment for air raid shelters. But since the pass.
who wanted to come over and Hankow was Statute barred.
had been given against him. Hewar British steel wool has been join, too, were stopped.
Carbin Iloilo "I managed to get in con- versation with a Polish colonul, Current Accounts opened in Local and he gave me a Polish Currency and Fixed Deposits received uniform. So I passed the cor-for one year or shorter periods in Local don easily."
and other currencies on terms which monses against him. He return-cleaning pots and pans, polishing
He took the last ferry from Le will be quoted on application. ed to Hong Kong before the fall parquet floors, cleaning glass and Havre before the Germans en- ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT of Canton.
BOXES in various, sizes TƠ LET. He stayed there be-
'removing.
from tered. He was stains
separated from
Hong Kong, 28th February, 1940. cause he was
Chinese in the Government service, and not be highly polished furniture without his family in the rush South. He thinks they are now in Spain. His father was the manager of HONG KONG SAVINGS cause of the money he owed in scratching the surface. Hong Kong.
Germany was formerly a big the docks in Le Havre.
BANK. He denied the suggestion of
TWO WEEKS ON ROAD He kept no records or books. Mr. Chen that he had paid inter-exporter of steel wool for these
He had been on the road for aj purposes, and since hostilities be-
The Business of the above Bank is In reply to Mr. She, witness est and got the further loan as gan merchants in South America fortnight, dodging the advancing conducted by the HONG KONG AND denied that defendant had not no interest was outstanding and
have turned their demands to Germans, before he reached Bor-SHANCHAI BANKING CORPORATION. paid him any interest at all and that he had paid the interest in
Some of those with him Rules may be obtained on application. Britain; increasingly large orders deaux. that he had stated that interest person.
FOR THE HONG KONG AND from Palestine, tried to make for St. Malo, and have also come was paid till September to bring
| SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and even were cut off. the debt within
V. M. GRAYBURN, Iceland.
On the road South he travelled
Chief Manager. for a time with M. Henrotin, the Housewives all over the world husband of the She had said
famous French Hong Kong. 1st March, 1937. he shared an plaintiff should be able to prove of steel wool as an inevitable part for St. Jean de Luz, and hoped who are coming to regard a pad tennis player. He was making
had seen defendant, in 1932, pay that the
Plaintiff said that he was a registered money lender and, in 1931, advanced two amounts for which double was signed, amount- ing to $12,000. Interest on these amounts were paid by defendant till September 1932. He advanced another loan of $300 to defen dant at about that time. He sued cn the last loan and obtained judgment, but not on the others as he did not have the money for
solicitors fees etc.
Limitations.
Amrit Singh,
lender, said that
the Statute of Equity Argument
another money After Mr.
that
even
office with the last witness. He that interest had been paid so
Statute of Limitations of their equipment probably do eventually to reach England, but interest to plaintiff at the regis-could not apply, Mr. Chen ad-not realise that although it is so has not got here yet. tered address. He did not know dressed the court on equity. He simple to use the process of manu- when defendant left Hong Kong said it was hardly believable that facture is highly technical, invol-
or when he returned, as witness plaintiff would advance another ving intricate and costly precision left for India,
loan if interest on the previous machinery.
Business Bad
HEAD ACCUSED OF INVASION TALE
Allegations against the head-
soup.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital
Reserve and Undivided
Profits
.$10,000,000.00 5,530,600.00
2.903.281.50
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
He Each wool-making machine has In reply to His Lordship, wit- ones had been outstanding.
that money lenders submitted that interest on the two several hundred mechanical cut- ness said
previous loans had, been paid tojters working side by side, some generally kept no books.
date and said that had it not been cutters with as many as 300 teeth so, plaintiff would have added the crowded into 25 millimetres of master of a Lanarkshire school Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; outstanding amounts when the space. Human hair is appreciably who was charged at Hamilton La Koon Chun, Esq.,.-P. K. Kwok, Esq..
coarser than steel wool cut under Hỏ Sal-mafi, defendant, said third loan was made.
under the Defence Regulations Wong Yun Tong, Esq., Chan Caing..., that in 1931 he was compradore In giving judgment for defen-these conditions. of Messrs. P. M. Pinquet and Co.dant, His Lordship said that the The most up to date steel wool were that he told boys and girls Shel, Esq.. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong
Fung, Ping Wah, Esq. He left the Company in 1932 and fonus was on the plaintiff to prove plants in the world are in England that the Nazis would soon invade Chu Son, Esq., Kan Ying Fo, Esq. and
Ireland, blockade Britain; and the Colony that same year. In that interest had been paid to and Scotland.
that the pupils would have to eat Kan Tong Po. Esq., Chlef Manager, March, 1931, he contracted two take the debt outside the Statute:
|cats and dogs and rat and snail-Li Tie Fong, Esq., Manager, He had kept no loans with plaintiff for $0,000, for of Limitations. which he signed double. He did books or records and depended not pay any interest on the loans. Jon one witness, who said that he He subsequently contracted an-saw interest paid. other loan for $300 and, signed for Defendant admitted making the $600. He left for Canton on pri-two notes in March,, 1931, and by vate business. Plaintiff allowed defence, pleaded that no interest any the third loan because he thought had been paid by him at that he was able to repay all at a time. As the writ was issued on
Statute of The passage of oil through the future date.
August 8, 1939, the
pipe-line connecting the Mosul It was stated that Finlayson was
a man of excellent character who Every description of Banking and wells with Tripoll, in the French-had a substantial defence to the Exchange business transacted. : Loans mandated territory of Syria, has charge and would prove his in-granted on approved securities. been interrupted states Reuter. This means that there has been nocence, no risk in this period of any of of oil
In reply to His Lordship, wit- Lim.tations applied. ness said he borrowed the money because, at the time, business was bad. He was earning $300 а month but received no commis- sion as he last money that year.
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MISCELLANEOUS. Entertainments $01⁄2 sa. Vibro Piling $88, ^u!
LAST DAY'S SALES
20 Wharves @ $80 600 Providents @ $4.35.
1,300 Trams @ $16
200 Trams @ $15.95 ... 2,200 Lights (Old) @ $7.10
500 Lights (Old) @ $7.05
400 Watsons @ $9.
600 Entertainments @ $0%
CANDIDATE A PRISONER
NO MOSUL OIL FOR ENEMY
Brown Finlayson, óf Helen- BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:- bank Street, Hamilton, accused of Amoy
Batavia
Hankow
publishing statements to fourteen Bombay pupils of Carfin School which Calcutta were likely to cause alarm and Haiphong despondency among the pupils Honolulu and their parents, was remanded Hobo
Kowloon in custody.
London
In the list of British prisoners the important quantities of war in Germany, broadcast by produced in these fields reaching THE CHARTERED BANK the German wireless is the name enemy hands. The pipe-line bc-
AND CHINA,
of Lt.-Col. J. B. Dodge, recently tween the Mosul fields and Haifa, OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA adopted as prospective Conserva-in Palestine, continues to func- tive candidate for Gillingham, tion normally. Kent...
owned by which
:
£3,000,000 £3,000,000.
£3,000,000
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853. Both pipe-lines are
Paid-up Capital, Col. Dodge was serving with the Irak Petroleum Co.,
a 75-year concession Reserve Fund the Kensington Rifles when he acquired
the Iraki Government in Reserve Liability of Pro was cut off with a British Brigade from
prietors in France. He is now 44 and won 1925. The majority shareholding the D.S.O. and D.S.C. in the last in this company is in the hands lieut.-colonel of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., the war. Becoming a
the at the age of 24, he was one of Royal-Dutch Shell Group, the youngest to hold that rank in Compagnie Francaise des Petroles the British Army. H's mother is and the United States Group.
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