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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TREASURY FRAUD
SEQUEL.
CASE AGAINST BANK
CONTINUED.
The Hongkong Government's action against the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, arising out of the sensational Treasury frauds of last year, can tinued yesterday,
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929.
need to ateal the cheques, "If Tsang On-wing was in the swindla it soms to be a madman's act.”
Mr. Potter continued to deal with the handwriting of Carvalho Yeo, saying he would show that Yeo was, in fact, a man who was using different signatures and writing different types. Counsel did this by showing to the jury an example of Teo's handwriting In connexion with his opening ac- counts at the Instone Banking: Corporation for Min Tak and Co. and the Netherlands Trading Society for Katz and Co.
was over.
The Government is suing the Bank for the re-crediting of a sum
Concluding his address on the of $260,407.93 as a sequel to the for which frauds Treasury
question of forgery. Mr. Potter doubt that Carvalho Yeo was last year son said there was no
Carvalho Yeo was skilful with the tenced to ten years' hard labour.,
Mr. Potter continued his open-pen, and submitted that the evid- ing address during the afternoon ence for the Crown sitting of the Court, pointing out whelming. differences in the writing on the disputed cheques as compared with other Government cheques. Dealing with the differences in Mr.. Black's signature he said it was impossible to believe that the differences, which all occurred in the three disputed cheques and not in the genuine ones, could have occurred if they had been writ- ten by Mr. Black in the ordinary
way.
With regard to what purported to be Mr. Messer's writing, the algnatures were far too regular They were well-formed and well written signatures. Another di ference was that the signatures were a long way from the edge of the cheque as compared with signatures on many other cheques examined.
Dealing with Taang On-wing, Mr. Potter said that when he was cross-examined as a witness in the criminal trial it was put to him that the writing on the dis- puted cheques was not, In fact, his writing, and that he was in the swindle to defraud the Govern- ment.
Tsang On-wing would be .called in the present case would say that the writing not his. If the writing on three disputed cheques was of Tsang On-wing then he just 3.4 much a criminal Carvalho Yeo, and should be in prison.
and
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No Record in the Books. Mr. Potter explained that when Tsung wrote the body of a cheque It was his duty to enter it up in the cash book. It was also his duty to make an entry in the cheque register when he drew a cheque. In addition there was a further register of vouchers to be kept up as Tanng must have a voucher before a cheque was drawn. No enses could be found of departures from these rules.
"If that man wrote the body of three three cheques he could not there is not a altgle record in any have done it innocently, because of those three books. Therefore It would be a waste of time for him to come here and say 'I drew
those cheques quite honestly, be- cause the first trucation would be where the entries were," continued
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Counsel safd that the cheques were some of those actually mis- sing from the book of cheques. Tanng Onewing was the man who discovered the fraud, he never left his past and he was certainly
not a knave.
of
Mr. Potter went on to explain that shortly before the end December Tapng naked for a book of 200 cheques and the Bank sent a book containing 400. Tsung re- ported this to Mr. Messer and also said that he was 60 cheques short. Mr. Messer did not understand that Teang was reporting a short- age of cheques but thought that he had not a sufficient number.
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The Defences. Mr. Potter then went on to deal with the defences. After menting that the first was a donial that the cheques were forged, counsel continued that paragraphs threa to eight wore to the effert that, assuming the cheques to law have been forged, then the Gov. ernment was prevented in from alleging forgery because of certain acts of negligence.
Making a general statement in law, Mr. Potter said that the pleas were of no avail. Evon assuming that the allegations of regligence were true, he would submit that they would not, in law, amount to negligence because the alleged negligence was not in the transaction itself, it was not the approximate cause of the lose. Negligence must be the cause. The approximate cause in the pre- sent case was the Bank paying forged choques.
Continuing, Mr. Potter pointed out it was admitted that there was no special contract between the Government and the Bank and that was a matter of supreme Import- ance to anyone in the Colony who had an account with the Hong- kong Bank.
"Lord Help the Customers."
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tars of the Hongkong Bank can- CONSERVANCY WORK. have read this defence or, if they read it, I don't think they can have appreciated what it means. I say that after careful consideration of this document, because if this defence is good in fact or in law then all I can say is Lord help the position of the customers. If a cheque is stolen by my office boy, I am liable for the full extent of the forgery, according to this de- un- force. If ray office boy is dutiful again I am liable for the full amount which that man may put upon my cheque. If I go to tiffin and forget my cheque book, one steals my cheque book, 1 um leaving it on the table, and some-
In an introduction, to the annual report, which has been prepared Engineer in Chief, the Director by Major G. W. Olivecrona, the General anys:
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STYLES
A. P. C. BUILDING.
CORRESPONDENCE.
"A GREAT JOKE."
{To The Editor of Hongkong •
Telegraph.]
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AMERICAN FARMERS.
MR. HOOVER DISAPPROVES EXPORTS DEBENTURES.
Washington, Apr. 22.
The ninth annual report of the
Mr. Hoover has sent a letter, to Sir, Your reporter, in his ac- Mr. McNary, the Chairman of the Board of Conservancy Works of Kwangtung, covering the period October 1, 1927, to September 30, count of the regrettable affair in Senate Committee on Agriculture, 1928, and a report on the work which I was involved at the Police declaring that the export deben- of the Sunglunged it as "A great joke.". What I and unworkable, and expressing the now completed for the protection Court, stated that I said I regard-ture plan to assist farmers is bad against floods
to Mr. Dobbie, with reference tofing, with resultant disaster to the Valley, West River, have come to said was that the apology I sent opinion that it will create profiteer- hand.
quite another matter, was a great farmer himself.
Mr. Mellon has also written to the Committee declaring that the joke, which is a very different
Your reporter also makes me proposed debenture is indistin state to the Magistrate: "In the guishable from a cash bounty on story. It was fortunate that no serious first place I am right in saying exports. "It is hardly to be as that this regrettable af-sumed that foreign countries, with Mr. Potter stated that that was floods occurred in the year under not the law and as to fact, he did review. During the year the re-fair, ele. Whereas what I did important agricultural interests to not think the jury would have pair of the Kongha wash-out in ay was the fret place be protect, will permit their produ any difficulty in negativing unch the Peklaw district, East River, lleve that I am right in saying," has been completed. Steps have etc., which also is a very different evidence,
He quoted from the defence to also been taken to begin repairing matter. Will you kindly publish States Treasury without adopting
River district. The Sunglung Yours, etc.,
W. A. DONALDSON. as well as the the Tung On dyke in the East this letter in your next issue7- Control Sluice Tallam, Silum and King Fook
liable for the full amount of that forgery."
the effect that it was the duty of the Government to take reason alle care to safeguard the Bank, in particular with regard to warn ing them of any Irregular, unusual
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war subsidised from the United era to be subjected, to a price
protective measures." Renter': American Service,
Official Australian Protest.
Canberra, Apr. 22. ́ ́. A Commonwealth Note to the United States Government on the proposed alteration in the American. tariff, on the basis of it being un- favourable towards Australia, re- fers to the unfavourable trade balance between Australia and America and the possibility of a diversion of trade from America to British and other countries with which the Commonwealth has fav ourable trade relations.
dykes in the West River districts out these projects. However, the have been brought to completion. Board will be in'n better position or suspicious circumstances; and Stone-filling has been continued at If the people in various places will that they should appoint and the Lapao Control Sluice in the follow the example given by the maintain competent and dutiful North River district with a view enthusiastic Inhabitants in the servants. Mr. Potter argued that to securing stability,
Sunglung valley and assist the there was no such duty on the The question of protecting Board with funds raised locally.
In forwarding his report to the customer but it was the other way places subject to inundation has about.
been engaging the full attention Director General, Major Olive The Bank's Plea.
of the Board, but the Board has erona wrote:
The big wash-out at Kongha, Another portion of the defence, not been in a position to do much
financial reasons. The Poklaw District, East River in for
It emphasises that if further reg- giving particulars of negligence, was read by Mr. Potter to the Board's original plan of raising a 1923 has been successfully clased, effect that the Government failed tax from the land receiving the this saving much land from future trictions are imposed on Australian trade by tariff increases, feeling. to tako such reasonable care and benefit of the work to be done fuundation.
against American trade preponder- "A Madman's Act."
ance will grow. Australia desires. precaution whereby the Bank, to cannot yet be carried out, It is not safe-impossible to raise any more taxes from the peasauts as they are
a maintenance of mutually, profit- Another point touched on by Mr. their prejudice, were
uble and amicable trade relations: guarded; they were consequently
Additional stone fill has been between the two countries. ・・・ Potter was the theft of the cheques, misled with regard to the cheques overburdened with there, and any In which connexion he pointed out
The Note shows that in the year them before giving them any made at Lupao Sluice in order to
1927-28, Imports Into Australia Treasury books of any of the dis regularly drawn, they were in benefit. So for the present we strengthen the apron. that there was not an entry in the and believing them to have been additional tax will be harmful to
Several schemes to reclaim land, from America, were 234,000,000, puted cheques and no vouchers duced to pay them as being have to stick to the policy of not
killing our goose that is going to now exposed to yearly inundation, while Australian exports to Americn were to be found. If Taang On-genuine cheques,
In this connexion, Mr. Potter ny the golden egg.
have been compiled and are now were only £9,000,000. Wool ex wlog was in the swindle, and the
Several projects, such na the waiting for financial support to ports to America doclined consider
nbly, while Australian Imports of handwriting in the bodies of the commented that he did. not think cheques was his, the signatures there was an official of the Hong-improvement of the Canton Har-be carried out,
to hour and the repair of various The Engineering Assistant, Cap- American mótor-cara. and accca of Mr. Messer and Mr. Black hav-kong Bank who would come ing been obtained by a trick, why Court and say that they were dykes, have been worked out, and tain N. R. Bjuke, has been on home mories Increased in a decade from.
the Government has been request leave from December 1927, to G$6,000,000 should 60 cheques be stolen? If misled by the Government.
The ense was adjourned.
ed to appropriate funds to carry Eeptember, 1928. that was so, there would be no
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GETTING TO GIVE GUZZLems] $4400 TO OLD
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