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IMPORTANT COMPRADORE ACTION IN SHANGHAI COMMENCED.
SINGULAR ALLEGATIONS AGAINST COMPRADORE
PARTNERSHIP,
ALLEGED. SETTING UP OF BOGUS DEALERS.
A case of great importance to the Ifidence between the plaintiffs and commercial community was com- the Hong Kong' & Shanghai Bank. menced in the Provisional Court,
last week, before Judge Zoo and
Defaulters' Addresses Wanted In opening the case, Mr. Rodger
CINEMA NEWS.
JANET GAYNOR IN A NEW ROLE.
AT THE QUEEN'S.
Having established herself as a tragedieans through her wonder ful performance in 7th Heaven," Janet Gaynor has set out to prove that she is also a comedienne of ability in "9 Girls Wanted," which is being shewn at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to-morrow.
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Marian Nixon and Robert Agnew take the star parts in a thrilling
Mr. C.-E. Whitamore (Senior' Con- said that goods were delivered to she is cast as a modern girl who i sul's deputy), when Messrs. Frazar dealers at the express request of &Co., Ltd, brought an action the compradore, who said he would relies on her pluck, brains and a against Chow Nyau Kos and Chow collect small balances, but he failsense of humour to carry her Wai Siak, of 30 Mohawk Road,ed to do so, As a result of the through life. Dressed as a boy, Mr. H. D. Rodger, with Mr. Li firms introduced being bogus and ing for work in order to keep the she goes out into the world look- Vee Wang, represented the plain-false dealers, the plaintiffs had home together. Naturally many tiffs and Dr. F. Wilhelm and Mr. suffered an actual loss of Tis embarrasing situations occur when T. Y. Lee were for the defendants. 29,663. The dealers had disappear-street ight.
her identity is discovered after a The petition set forth that the ed and failed to take up the cargo defendants were partners in the and defendants had failed to give compradoreship ot plaintiffs' firm the plaintiffs theas dealers' ad- and the second defendant was the dresses. If the defendants дом race track picture, "Down the first defendant's guarantor. By agreement, the defendants were em- ployed as compradores at Tl. 600 per month and there was a guaran- tee from the second defendant to the extent of Tis. 30,000. Defen- dants introduced about 75 Chinese firms as respectable, sound, and well-established, and reliable as to business integrity, upon which the plaintiffs entered into sales con tracts for piecegoods. All these firms, however, had failed to carry out their contracta.
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Plaintiffs averred that the said dealers
not respectable, sound, and well-established busi ness firms, but were fake, bogus, and false arms which the defen- daats introduced with the inten- tion of taking up, the goods order ed if the market and exchange were favourable when said goods arrived in Shanghai, and of refus ing to take up said ordered goods if the market and exchange were unfavourable and that said con tracts were made and said worth less dealers were introduced by the defendants to the plaintifs for the purpose and with the intention of creating and defrauding the plain; tiffs by virtue of the defendants' false representations and the plain- tiffs' reliance thereon.
a. When re quested to take up the goods, the defendants alleged that the firms either refused to take delivery or bad absconded. The plaintiffa claimed Tls 17,489.17, fese, Tls. 9,038.18 admitted as credits due to the defendants.
Defendant's Contentions.
com-
would give the addresses, action would be taken against the de faulters. Ons part of the, claim was for contracts for which the de- fendants had signed firm order and on which goods had been ordered, but the defendants had failed to return the contracts, which they agreed to get back in seven days. On goods actually sold there was a loss of TL 9,300 and on certain goods still unsold the loss would be Tls. 6,000.
Some argument ensued between the Judge and counsel as to the standing of the two defendants, and eventually Mr. Rodger said:
Stretch" which comes to the Star Robert Agnew takes the part of a Theatre to-day and to-morrow. young jockey who weakens bodily under the strain of vigorous train- ing, but the love of a girl helps him in a desperate struggle to win the exciting race.
"GRAND DUCHESS
ANASTASIA.”
NEW INVESTIGATION ·
RUMANIA.
STORY OF A RED'S CONFESSION,
"As the Court knows, it is the custom sometimes for foreign firms to have a principal compradore. In this case, Chow Wai Sisk was the compradore for Arnhold's piece goods department and did not wish
BUCAREST his name to appear as compradore Great interest has been aroused for this firm, so he put his nephew, in high quarters here in the young N. K. Chow, in as nominal com-woman known as Anastasia Tchai pradore and agreed to guarantee kovskaia, who is claimed to be the him. When, money was received Grand Duchess Anastasia, the third from the firm, Chow Wai Siak re daughter of the late Emperor of ceived it and we are able to ahow Russia, and who has been recognis that he was, in fact, a partner ined as such by Mrs. W. B. Leeds, the compradoreship, and, when the formerly Princess Xenia of Russia. agreement was signed, it was the firm belief and intention of all concerned that he was signing guarantor."
See My Uncle
by Anastasia in Mommsen's clinic According to the statements made in Berlin, she fled with her hus band from Russia oroas the Rumanian frontier and came to Bucarest, where her son Alexander was born. She remembered only vaguely the part of the town, where she Hived, and says she confided the child to some poor people who were ready to adopt him. Her husband disappeared and was believed" to have been killed in a row.
A new statement has been made
recently by Mr. C. C. Atanasiu,
Mr. J. J. Dawe said that he was formerly a director of Frazar & Co. He drew up the contract be tween Frazar & Co. and the defen- dants, it was diebussed thoroughly with all the parties concerned, and In his answer, Chow Nyau Kuo he signed it as a witness. He met denied that the second defendant Chow Wai Sink two or three weeks was a partner in the compradore before that, at the late Mr. M
Mr. Romulus Voinescu, the Dires- ship or that the second defendant Michael's house, to discuss the com- tor of the Police and Biguranta, was bis guarantor, but admitted pradoreahip. Both the defendants said to me that his agents left po that he personally, had a were present Chow Wai Siak stone unturned, but could find no pradore agreement. He admitted signed as guarantor for his nephew trace of Anastasia's sojourn in introducing certain Chinese firms, and witness understood that he Bucarest nor of her passage across but not 75, and contended that was financially interested in the the frontier and Bessarabia. Nor many of those referred to were salary and commissions. Chow could her son, the supposed heir to doing business with the plaintiffs Wai Siak was the principal part the Romanoff millions, be found. prior to his engagement. All inner in the compradoreship, but his troduced by him were respectable, name was not put down as such, sound, and well-established busi- because he did not wish it, being
a Rumanian, who lately, returned ness firms and merchants at the the compradore for another firm home from Siberia, where he was time he introduced them and the N. K. Chow, applied for the post-held prisoner for about ten yeara. plaintiffs ascertained that fact be- tion of compradore and Chow Wai He declares that a Bolshevik com fore accepting orders. Such Sisk was brought in later as misaar in Siberia confessed that. dealers as failed did so in conse guarantor: he signed in that one of the Czar's daughters escaped quence of the political situation, capacity and witness regarded him
when the Imperial Family was for which he was not responsible. as the principal in the compradore murdered and fed abroad. As an alternative, the defendant ship. contended that the plaintiffs were negligent in not cancelling orders at Home if contracts had not been returned by dealers and that, by failing give notice after the ar- rival of the goods, they kept them for their own account and risk. He claimed that the amount owing to him was Tis. 12,083.04, for which he put in a counter-claim.
Chow Wai Siak' answer admit ted his signature to the com- pradore agreement, but only as a supervisor, and he was neither con- jointly compradore nor a guaran tor. He later guaranteed a godown man, but this had nothing to do with the first defendant and was intended solely to enhance the con-
'PROVOCATION" OF A HUSBAND:
ALLEGATION THAT A WIFE WAS ENTICED AWAY.
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Cross-examined
Before
the
agreement was signed, it was dis cussed time after time, each para graph separately.
Though Mr. Romulus Voinescu il very sceptical about the result of formed that Mr. Samuel Howe, an any new investigations, I am in. Re-examined The whole basis American detective and journalist, of the agreement was "that Chow is arriving here to resume the Wai Sisk was to be the guarantor search abandoned by the German and he never denied that he was and Rumanian police. It is said until the action was filed. When that money for this search has been anything important had to be offered by Mrs. Leeds. done, N. K. Chow always said:- "See my uncle." In the first few weeks, Chow Wai Siak came to the office practically every day and personally apologised to witness for not being able to give the firm more time. He supervised things.
The hearing was adjourned- North China Daily New...
STONEHENGE ALTAR SPECTACLE
ACTION BY HEARST COMPANIES.
NEARLY £5,000,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED.
New Yong, June 17th. The Hearst Corporation, and the Newspaper and Magazine Paper Corporation, one of the sabsidiary Hearst companies, Bre seeking damages amounting to 24,740,000. DAWN OF MIDSUMMER DAY. dollars (£4,948,000) against nino
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Canadian newsprint manufacturers and one Canadian newsprint selling. SALISBURY, June 21st.
company. The suit arose ont of at A scene between s. husband and
Visitors to Stonehenge this porn alleged breach of contract. Notice another man who, he alleged, deing were rewarded, after years of was served yesterday in the form coyed his wife away was described disappointment, by witnessing the of an attachment obtained from st Ongar Police Court when spectacle of the rays of the rising Justice Valente in the Supreme Arthur Norris, the husband, and Herbert Norris, his brother, both un falling on the altar stone. Court of New York County:
It is six years since weather con- The papers accompanying the at- of High Ongar, were accused of ditions permitted this phenomenon tachment state that the Newspaper Soulting Albert Simmons, also of which occurs only on the longest day and Magazine Paper Corporation High Ongar.
Simmons said that the brothers to be seen. The crowd was con- made an oral agreement with there was almost an absence of the supply several of the Hearst news siderably smaller than usual, and Canadian Paper Salca, Limited, to music and dancing which have papers with 3,000,000 tons of news- wiled away the time of waiting in print, to be delivered at the rate previous years of 300,000 tons annually for ten At the time drew near for the years. This agreement, it is claim- rising of the sun anxious eyes turned, was made on or about April ed towards the east, where there 2nd, 1028, but on April 21st the was a cloudless sky. Gradually the Canadian company failed and re- light strengthened, and presently fused to perform, and gave notice the sun appeared above the horizon that it would continue to refuse to like a great red ball, and the rays perform, the contract. The dam- Tell directly across the stone ages asked for this breach of One man, George Mitchell, of contract are 10,640,000 dollars Yeovil, climbed the stones to secure £2,188,000) and the Hearst Cor- a better view, but fell off and re- poration's suit against the same ceived injuries which necessitated companies amount to 13,000,000
dollars [£2,780,000]; bis removal to hospital,
waylaid him near his home and assaulted him.
Arthur Norris stated in defence that Simmons had been trying to break up his home for the past two or three years. He had one of the best of wives, but Simmons had enticed her away, den
**When I went to his house to
speak to him about it," said Norris, be kicked mo, and I then struck him, and, knowing the man, 'call ed for my brother
Simmons denied that he had en ticed the wife away, dimand
The Bench thought that there was provocation, and dismissed the
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