THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16rx, 1916.
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AN ACCOUNTANT'S LIBEL
ACTION.
COMMENTS ON A SHANGHAI CASE,
or, in case of default, 90 days imprison- ment. Mesars. Lowe, Bingham & Mat- thews had not asked for damages. As regards the other plaintiffs, the Court pointed out that Danish law required Under this heading, The Accountant, proof of loss before damages could be awarded, and no such proof was forth the leading organ of the profession, courcoming; but it ordered the defendant to ments as follows upon the libel action
a sum of 250 Mexican dollars to brought in the Danish Consulat Court, Messrs. Love, Bingham & Matthews in Shanghai, against Mr. J. E. Melchior respect of coats, and a similar suma joint by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthewsy to the other plaintiffs for the same aid by the Bank of Chian and Mr. E
purpose, thus charging the defendant Passeri:-
1,500. Mexican dollars in all for his in discretion, apart from his own costs in respect of the defence.
AN ACCOUNTANT'S LIBEL ACTION. We have recently received from Shang- One of the points raised for the defen hai an account of a judgment delivered dant was, apparently, that a branch office last June by the Danish Consular Court had no independent financial position, there, in certain consolidated actions for and, therefore (presumably), that any libel brought by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham accountant's report dealing solely with & Matthews, and by the Bank of Ching the affairs of a single branch could not andr. G. Passeri (ita financial ad fail to be misleading. It is, of course, viser) against Mr. J. E. Melchior, Both perfectly true that the financial position Mesars, Lowe, Bingham & Matthews and of a business house depends upon ite Mr. Melchior are in practice as accoun-financial standing sa a whole, rather than tents in Shanghai. Two partners in the first-named frm are Chartered Accoun- tants, and the other is an F.P.3. of New Zealand; we are without information as to the, precise status of the defendant, however, save that his name does appear in the list of members of the Lu stitute, or in that of the Incorporated Society,
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on the financial standing at the moment of any one branch; but this is a more truism, and it is a long way from this to the assertion that any report at-
In-
tempting to deal with one branch one quat necessarily be of a misleading character Naturally, we are not fully informed as to all the circumstances that led up to Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Mat It appears that, owing to some rumours thewn investigation; but we rather about the standing of the Bank of China gather that the rumours that had been rumours which "applied partly to tan afloat, and which it was hoped to stifky. Bank of China as a whole, and partly by a frank publication of the facts, were to the branch of the Bank-in Shanghai rumours affecting the Shanghai branch- it was decided, with the consent of the alone, or, perhaps, the Shanghai branch, head office of the Bank in Peking, to call
its manager, and its management. in a foreign firm of auditors to go asmuch as it is quite possible that an through the books of the Bank at the
irregular position at a branch may affect Shanghai office, investigate its affairs, the financial soundness of a business con- and embody their concissions in a www.
cern as a whale, so (conversely) it in per- port, with a view to having it published fectly legitimate, in cases where there are This work was entrusted to Messrs. Lowe,ramours as to irregularities at a branch, Bingham & Matthews, who cujoy an un-to publish the result of an investigation rivalled reputation in Shanghai, to whom of the affairs of that branch, an tending every facility was offered to make a cum-
to show that these rumours have no justi- plete investigation of the affales of the firation whatever in fact, A report to Shanghai branch of the Bank. In due that effect certainly cannot be described course, on the 16th March 1918, the firm nu mistrading provided, of course, it issued its report, addressed to the tells the simple truth, Had the defen- Governor of the Bank of China, Peking, dans in this case confined himself to the which dealt fully with the organisation, discussion of the purely professional as- management, accounts, securities, etc., of pect of the matter, he would probably the Shanghai office, This report went to have been upon firm ground, and wight show beyond all doubt that the investiga-have expressed any opinion, band-fide tion referred only to the branch at entertained with absolute impunity; but Shanghai, which alone had been the sub-it is, of course, entirely another thing jeet of investigation on the "part of when one wharges respectable persona with Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, The corruption, merely because one differs report (we understand) was published from them on a question of accounts. verbatim in the North China Daily News To charge a
the 25th March, 1918, preceded by a having been professional accountant with in connection letter from Mr. Passeri, as the financial with the issue of a report as a result of adviser of the Bank, in which he recapi an investigation, is to bring against him tulated the various points of the report, the most serious charge that it is possible and dealt on the excellent management for anyone to bring, affecting his profes- and sound financial position of the Bank sional conduct. We think, therefore, that of China, In this letter no specific re- the, majority of our readers will agree lorence whatever was made to the Shang-with us that, in view of all the circum- hai branch. Apparently it struck the stances, Mr. Melchior got off very lightly defendant as misleading that an account with penalties amounting in all to but ant's examination of one branch of a little over £150 sterling. concern should be regarded as a basis for a calogy of the financial position of the undertaking as a whole, and after some correspondence Mr. Melchior seems to have adopted the somewhat extreme course of issuing a circular, of which, ap parently, no less than 140 copies have been sent out, in which, inter alia, he stated The firmer advices in the beginning of that "the Bank of China and Mr. G. the period, cabled from Bombay, point- Fassori have somehow corrupted the mosting to a further enhancement of values trusted firm of British auditora in the by spinners, have had little influence on Far East, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & this market, which has continued dull Matthews, into issuing a false and in and featureless throughout the fortnight. tentionally misleading favourable report upon the Bank's affairs, and upon the Clearances have gone from bad to worse state of the Government's, account with and the recent high-priced contracts seem the Bank." The circular further stated, to and an extremely slow movement,
Had the Bank's affairs and its Govern- ment account been in a healthy state, the publishing of such a false and misleading report would not have been necessary. I, therefore, consider it my duty to warn the public by exposing the falsity of Mt. Passeri's letter, and of Messrs. Lowe & Matthews' report."
In these circumstances one can readily understand that there was no other course open to the plaintiffs but to institute proceedings against the defendant for libel. In the course of a somewhat lengthy judgment, the Danish Consular Court states that, while they cannot but find that Mr. Passeri's letter preceding the report of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews lays itself open to criticism to some extent by only mentioning the Bank of China, and not distinctly the Shang- hai branch, to which it refers, the close connection of the letter with the report following, which in two places clearly mentions the Shanghai office and the Bank in Shanghai, may account for this omission the letter.
corrupted
COTTON AND YARN MARKET.
Messrs. Polishwalla & Kotwall, Cotton and Yarn Brokers, Hongkong, in their report dated December 15th, state:--
The nervous feeling engendered by this unresponsive character of enquiries from the interior has been aggravated by the pronounced upward tendency manifested by Silver, with the result that dealers refuse to operate to any extent. -
In view of the several factors that militato against each other, it is difficult to foreshadow the course of the market, having regard to the position of Bombay spinners which, at to-day's cotton, is otherwise than enviable, and in view of the poor prospective supplies, any serious set-back to the present values would appear far from likely,
Sales during the fortnight only amount to 2,200 bales, Rates on the whole an barely steady.
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Unsold and undelivered 28,000 bales. ARRIVALS. The extra steamer Kanate Mars and the mail steamer Noura from Bombay have brought in 8,000 bales for Hongkong and 11,000 bales for Shanghai, Shipments from Hongkong to Shanghai To a careful and coast ports, 1,000 bales, reader, it is said, the letter should not SHANGRA has practically the same story be misleading as referring to anything to tell, the sales reported being 2,500 but the Shanghai branch, and, accord-bales with a steady market ingly, the Court ruled that the allegation JAPANESE YARNS have likewise been an of the defendant that the letter was false was "without foundation in fact."
As regards the report itself, this, it is said, was, in the opinion of the Court, a true and professionally correct report on the state of affairs of the Back of China's Shanghai branch, and did not protend to cover more than the branch office. As regards the charge of corrup- tion, the Court ands that the defondant
uninteresting market, with hardly any alteration in rates. Only 300 bales Kishiwada 20s are reported sold at $166.
BAW COTTON,No sales in Bengal or Chinese. Quotations:-Bengal, at $20 to 1; Chinese, at $30 to $37 per picul
INTERESTING ZEPP FIGURES.
has apparently never fully realised its In the days when Great Britain was seriousness During the proceedings, we being raided by Zeppeling and we were are told, he never attempted to impute without thy means which now exist to that a bribe had been offered or accepted: hit back, some of our croakers found bat maintained that the interpretation of
The
the word "corruptly." should be taken miserable delight (says the Esser Weekly in ita legal meaning, as actual and inten-New) in saying, in order to make our tional wrongdoing. The Court, however, flesh creep, that Hun sirships could be was unable to accept this construction of turned out with great rapidity. the word "corrupted," holding that it Jeremiahs put the time occupied in must be taken in the sense generally construction at a couple of months. The understood by the public, and by the per- information obtained by expert examina sons to whom the statement was sent, as tion of the Zeppelin Lss which came down something in the nature of a bribe, or in Essex near the coast proves that it
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