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No. 33,056
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941
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BUTTER
DEAL IN SLEEPERS FOR A.R.P.
War
0000000000
Tax Evasion Scheme Denied Questions About Tai Lee Firm
A SUGGESTION THAT A COMPANY WAS SPECIALLY FORM- ED FOR A DEAL IN SLEEPERS, THAT IT MADE $50,000 PROFIT ON 80,000 SLEEPERS IN A FEW MONTHS, AND WAS DISSOLV- ED IN ORDER TO EVADE PAYMENT OF WAR TAXATION; WAS MADE BY THE CHAIRMAN, MR. JUSTICE P. E. F. CRESSALL, AND DENIED BY A WITNESS AT TO-DAY'S RESUMED HEAR- ING OF EVIDENCE BY THE A.R.P. COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY.
It was also suggested and denied that
those concerned in the transaction were "tip- THIS OIL
ped off" by somebody connected with A.R.P. that easy money was to be made.
One witness admitted buying sleepers at $1.90 each and selling them to Marsman's a few days Mater for $2.90 each.
The first witness called was myself.
Pang Chik, who described him- Then there is some connection self manager and partner in the between the firms?--No, there is
no firm connection at all. Pang Chik and Tam firm.
Asked who the other partners] Who are the partners of Tai were, wilness gave Lee?--I don't know, in the firm
the names of Lau Lai-sang,
How much money did you put Kwong Ming-kwong, Fung Mau- into that firm?-$2,000. fon. Kwong Yan-shan, Tam Long-ying and the Kwong Yik Company.
The Kwong Yik Company?— Yes.
They were also partners?--Yes. What is the Kwong Yik Com- are a land invest- pany? They ment company.
They are not contractors?—No. How much money did they put in? $4,000.
Did everybody put in $4,000?--- No.
How much did you put in $2,000.
What is the highest put in by any partner?-$4,000, by Kwong Yik.
When was the company formed? -In 1939.
What month? About the mid-
of the year.
Pang Chik
Before then the company
Was
And you don't know who the
partners are?---Only them,
a few
uf
Tell us who they are. Tam Yong-ling. Kwong Ming-kwong They are all 1 Lau Lai-sang. know. There must be more but
I cannot tell.
Do you know when the Tai Lee firm was formed?-Round about December, 1940.
and
A few months after Pang Chik
Tam
formed? There was was a long time between, a little over a year.
To Buy Wood
Why was it formed?-I don't know why. They formed this company all of a sudden as they wanted to buy some wood.
They formed the company to buy wood? They bought some wood.
Would I be correct in saying it was formed to buy railway sleep-
not in existence?-Up to the ers?—Yes.
And would I be correct in say middle of 1939 there was in ex- istence in my name a firm called ing that all purchases were made through a man called K, C. Leung? Pang Chikt.
were not What was the nature of your-Since the purchases business?-I worked for P.W.D. made through my hands I cannot intreclamation and other work, say.
But you were not in the timber, trade? No.
And it was only after 1939, that you dealt in timber?-Not, even then.We have never dealt in wood,
You have never sold timber to the ARP Department? No.
What is the address of Pang Chik and Tam? No. 33, Queen's Road Central !!!
1997 God You know the Tal Lee Com pany? Yes.
Are they of the same address? Yes,
Who is the manager of Tai Lee? Kwong Ming-kwong,
Is he any relation of yours? No, sir.
May Have Been Confused
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He has left America aboard a Japanese ship, the "Manila Maru"
the con to officially take up sular post in Tientsin though in- Internation-formed Shanghai circles believe he
al News Service.
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EDITOR ARRESTED
may stay in the latter city, owing to the growing importance of of a world centre Shanghai as Nazi propaganda dirccted through- out the Orient and to the United States by radio and ether propa- ganda
thethods. International News Service.
ANTI-CHOLERA REGULATIONS.
The ship unloaded flour and a¦ (SPECIAL TO “China MAIL") small amount of oil a week ago.
Thirteen Chinese women were A CHINESE SUSPECTED OF
two weeks' each fined $10, or The Japanese-dominated Cus-
IN THE AT-hard labour, by Mr. H. C. Macna- toms demanded the unloading of | INVOLVEMENT
but the American TEMPT TO KILL TWO JAPAN-mara at Kowloon this morning all the oll
ROAD ON for a breach of the Anti-Cholera President Line, agents for the ESE IN NANKING
WEDNESDAY NIGHT IS BEING Regulations by collecting mussels Lykes Line, refused. Destination of the oil is believ-HELD FOR QUESTIONING BY at Laichikok beach yesterday
POLICE IN afternoon.
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MUNICIPAL
to have been changed from THE Japan when
States SHANGHAI. the United placed the embargo on Japan.- International News Service.
show, but don't lenow.
the manager?—I But you are don't understand it, I have never heard of it.
are
You mean to say that you manager and you don't know of money paid to Pang Chik and Tam? Perhaps it was put through Tam Long-hing, a colleague,
Have you ever seen the books of Pang. Chik and Tam?--Yes, -time and again.. ~:.
Have you ever seen entries of money paid by Marsman's? - I have never seen such entries.
Not A Piece
..
You mean to say that Pang Chik and Tam nover sold wood to Mars- man's? Yes, not a single piece. Tai Lee borrowed the letter paper- Of whom you are one of the partners?--Yes,
any
Have you ever received dividends from Tai Lee?-Tai Leo Have you ever sold timber to was in existence, for only three Marsman's? Never,
months and at the end of that Why do Marsman's say they period all the money was divided. bought from you?-No, we never What profit did you make?
Some $2,300 odd. sold timber to them.
Witness explained that when the Has Pung Chik and Tam ever Tur-Lee firm was formed, they sold timber to Kin Lee company? used the letter paper of Pang Chik-Never
Have they anything to do with Pang Chik and Tam? -No
Are you quite sure? Yes, May and Tam, and suggested that According to the books of H L'explain, sir? At one time Tal Marsman's may have been confus-Lee they say that Pang Chik and Lee borrowed some of our lettered into thinking that the timber Tam, your firm, sold ümber to paper and that was how we got was supplied by Pang Chile and them to the extent of $3,434. — I
Tam mixed up.
say we never sold wood to Kin The Chairman: Marsman's show Lec. Maybe, it was as in Mars- ́payment of thousands of dollars man's case the letter paper being. for the sale of timber by Pang borrowed by Tai Les from Pang. Chik and Tam?Perhaps that is Chile and Tam
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