THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1941
CHINA FINANCE CONFERENCE
UNDER
LAWSUIT AFTER SHELTERS
FRENCH FLIGHT
TARGETS
Lord Horder, the King's At the opening of the
physician, who spoke at a Third National Financial What counsel described She is Mrs. Kate Powell, Wig- luncheon at the Overseas ton Hall, Wigton, Cumberland, Club in London, expressed Conference in Chungking as a "tragic and advent- and she sued Mr. Walter Joseph yesterday, Mr. Lin Sen, urous story" of a woman's Reid, a young married man, de- his concern afterwards at scribed as of the Royal Auto- the number of children Chairman of the National escape from France when mobile Club, Pall Mall, for Government, called atten- that country collapsed, £575 7s. 6d.
agree- still left in congested areas
on in London. tion to the two important was told to Mr. Justice June 19. items on the Conference Cassels in the King's agenda, namely, readjust-Bench Division.
ment
ment made
under an between them
Mr. Reid denied the agreement as pleaded, alleging that certain The claim she made arose out) deletions were made. He contend- and collection of of the loss of her car and per-ed that, to secure Mrs. Powell the land tax by the Cen-sonal possessions.
against loss of her car, he agreed tral Government and re-
to hand over to her his M.G. car, which was in England.
form of
system.
the financial
These items, said Mr. Lin, were among the most Important of resolutions adopted at the recent Plenary Session of the Kuo- mintang Central Executive Com-' mittee and were of vital concern to the war of resistance and to national reconstruction.
Reform of the financial system,
state, for as the Central Govern-
WIFE AND
FRIEND
He maintained that the only other claim she had was to £15, the agreed value of the goods she abandoned. He denied that she had to abandon the car for her personal safety.
SHOT DEAD Son's Rescue Attempt
Sentence of five years' Mr. Lin said, constituted a funda- penal servitude was im- mental condition of a modern posed on Alexander Hill, ment and local governments are a corporal of the Military one body politic, there must be Police, by Lord Patrick at Glasgow High Court for Therefore, in the administra-the culpable homicide of tion of finance there must be unity.
be his wife and a naval sig- which could only achieved through the Centrai nalman. Government taking comprehen-
intimate association between them.
sive measures.
Hill pleaded not guilty to
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stated, were in France when war Mr. and Mrs. Powell, it was broke out. Last May they were persuaded by their son, who had
gone to France to rescue them,