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Mr. Dent said the firm experi enced very heavy losses from do faulting Chinese. He did not sue the Chinese, but threatened them innumerable times by lawyers' letters.
The losses wore incurred by the Chinese, and Mr. Dent, "But they vanished before chance to get hold of them."
Why did you give them goods with out promissory notes 7-We did not; they owed us the differ ences due to depreciation.
Mr. Dont said he had no other interest in any other property out- side his own firm. He had a life! policy for £3,000 taken ont in 1913 This was not in his name, but was taken out under a marriage settle- ment. One baak took out a policy for £25,000 and another, bank far"
· Gold 840,000, There was anotlier! policy with the China Mutual and the Canadian Sun on The life af witness's son-aken out in 1915,
in insurance premiums during the last six months. The solicitor acting for him in these proceedings was Mr. Wright.
"Nothing."
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THURSDAY,
ATGEST 16, 1923.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
TUCHUN MISRULE.
London, "Aug. 15.
Strong measures to suppress Tuchun rule is the principal feature of the scheme propounded by brigadier General C. D. Bruce in a letter to the Times for solving China's present problem of dis- integration. He says that if nothing is done" disintegration by Tuchons will soon become an accomplished fact. Still, the existing possibility of the unification of China cannot survive many more years of Tuchun misrule. The writer opines that next to the British the Chinese is the most truly democratic nation in the world. They enjoyed Monarchical Government. like the British, for centuries, and he doubts if any Asiatic nation can flourish as a Republic. He believes that if it is possible to carry out a referendum of China the restitution of the Monarchy would receive millions of votes, and that it would best suit the country's present condition, but he realises that is for the Chinese to evolve their own Government and for foreign Powers to aid them in holding up it. He proposes that the Powers tell the Central Government it should hold each Tuchun responsible for the lives of foreigners" and safe travel, and thei foreign Powers should back up Chinese measures to dea! strongly with them within two months; also provide money for gratuities and reassimilation into. civil life of the Tuchuns' disarmed adherents,
POWERS. NOTE TO CHINA. ·
London, Aug. 15.
The Times in a leader not believe that the Fowers Note to China will have the slightest effect. The paper says it is a trans- In answer to further questions, parent "make see" in a land of "make see." It criticises its formal. witness said he had paid Tls. 8,323ity of phrase and the argument of the document, which it says de- ceives nobody in China and nobody out of China, who does not want to be deceived. It says the Nele might have been deemed satis- factory had its signatories stated how and when they propose to carry out their stated firm determination. The terms' are hardly worth immediate discussion at present. They are only empty words which will not greatly move the phantom Chinese Government or the very real and active Tuchuns and brigands. The paper endores Mr. Bruce's proposals to deal with the Tuchun's and it urges the signa- tories to the Four Power Washington Treaty to agree and act promptly unless they are content to see China sink into the abyss, while they are discussing measures for her preservation. Time is the main factor in the problem.
The Official Receiver Wh money or security bave you given to your solicitor in respect of. these proceedings -Nothing.
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Witness, said he had pledged all his stock in trade with the bank. He suspended payment of his debts on July 16, but they had ditär's meeting two days prior to that date. "ny credit was cut on the 13th, IN business credit throughout the world was cut with.{ mit my knowledge."
Have you incurred any losses by speculation, other than your own trade -No.
Is it your intention to make a proposal to your ereditors by way
of a composition?--I have sold the,
goodwill of the silk part of the
GERMANY'S CRISIS.
Berlin, Aug. 15.
While Hamburg police were proceeding to Wilhelmaburg to relieve the police station beleaguered by the strikers, the latter at-
tempted to block their progress by a valley of stones. The police
responded with revolver fire, killing three and wounding eight.
AMERICAN MINE DISASTER.
Kemmerer, Aug. 15.
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five years which makes Treis 6,000.
Asked as to the cause of his in- solvency witness said that they were due to the deliberate breaking of, enntracts by Chinese purchasers, and the purchasers absconding, also. to the chaos in China, to the trouble in the Ruhr district and other things, which made it almost im possible for business to be carried
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When you did know this why did you carry on 7-I was instructed to carry on.
By whom-By my principal creditors.
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Principal Creditors.
Who do you call your principal creditors at that time -The Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration, Hobson & Co., of Man- chester, the International Bankdog Corporation who were representing Hill and Bucknep of New York, the Bank de l'IndoChine and the Bank Industriello.
Witness said his income WAR Tales 750 per month. This he drew from the firm an salary. When ho' went home" in 1919 he took Tales 2,000, but after his return he took very little.
Witucas said he had made a full disclosure of all he knew. He Formerly had two motor-curs, which he intended to sell but could not] find A buyer. He purchased 4 lighter car on money borrowed from his father:
This closed the examination, no response being made to his. Lord- ship's intimation that any crédikyrs| present were entitled to ask lies- tions of witness.
MURDER INSTEAD OF MARRIAGE, Hassen Mohamed; an Arab fireman, was pentenced to death at Durham Assizza recently for the murder of Jane Nagi at South Shields Mohamad, it was stated, was to have been married. to the woman two days after the murder. A quarrel in a restaurant was de Pcribed, in which Nagi clawed Mohamed's face and declared she was finished with him. Mohamed left and returned with a revolver, Ho shot Nagi doad.
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