Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 27, 1939.
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Dramatic Turn In Choa Po-Sien Bankruptcy Case
OFFICIAL RECEIVER WITHDRAWS ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD
Britain Succours 29,000 Refugees
LONDON, June 20,
GERMAN, Austrian and Czech refugees, totalling 7.177 men, 0,482 women, and 2,197 children under 18 entered Britain between February 28 and May 20.
These figures were given by Bir John Blmon in reply to a question in the House of Com- mona to-day, when he added that during the same perlod 517 men and 301 women refurces left EnglanČI,
The number of German, Austrian and Czech refugees in the United Kingdom on May 20 was 15,480 men, 12,700 women, and 0,001 children under 18.- Reuter Special.
Tragid Death At Sea
Missionary Dies On Way Home
AFTER years of self-sacrificiug mission work in Burma and British India, the Rev. and Mrs. B. M. Jones
MISS ETHEL MORRISON
IN THE WITNESS
BOX
ALLEGATIONS OF fraud on the part of certain creditors made at a provious hearing were withdrawn by the Official Receiver, Mr. L. R. Andrewos, when the application to have an adjudication order against Choa Po-sion rescinded, came before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsoll at the Bankruptcy Court this morning.
Choa was adjudged a bankrupt in 1937 and it was alleged that this was brought about by a number of friendly creditors in order to deprive Miss Ethel Morrison of the fruits of the judgment she obtained against the debtor to the extent of over $29,000.
Mr. M. A. du Silva appeared for tors cannot be said to be consistent self to be silli employed in that posi- the debtor and a creditor Ho Pak- with ordinary business practice. Ition. ching, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo was cannot recollect a case, nor I think
Miss Morrison Called
he
for Tong Shiu-kin and Chung Tat-
Fat- can your Lordship, in which creditors The conclusion therefore la feresis- ching, Mr. P. Wynler-Blyth was for have proved their debis in this cxible that the debtor was a dishonest the Procurator
of the Spanish troo
traordinary fashion; and it can only Doninlean Mission, and Mr. T. J. be explained by the fact which has person before these proceedings were
and thai lic petitioner been admitted over and over again. tioned in als own name, the Court Prior represented creditor Lay Kan-fat, the estate of that they are friends and intimate it fully informed of the facts, would Kwan King-chung, and Lee China-triends of the debtor. So much for have peremptorily dismissed it. shice. All of them were creditors, the complaints that I make against
the friendly.creditors. Unreservedly Withdrawn
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Glass Window In City Crashes 70 Ft.
A slab of glass à quarter-inch. thick, 8 feet long, and 2 feet wide suddenly broke from 1 fifth floor window of the Fedder Building Just before 10 am. to. day and plunged 70 feet
to the concrete below in the faneway side of Queen's Theatre. Silvers of glass spread дя though from the bursting of a bomb, but not a soul was hurt,
at
the
The glass came from a win. dow of the premises occupied by Imperial Chemical Indus- iries (China) Ltd. The win- dow, partly opened, was seized upon suddenly by a alarp gust of wind and flung against the brick alcove of the window. It broke ggedly from its steel frame and crashed into the tank.
Inquisitive Commons
BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS
propose now to call Mins Morri- son to testify to the dishonest conduct of the debtor and at the conclusion Mr. Andrewes said:
Now as regards the debtor himself, of her evidence and when your "Your Lordship, will recollect that at the last bearing before your Lord- against whom, as I have said, 1 am Lordship has had an opportunity of ship, my friends interposed when I alleging dishonesty. To substantiate considering the relevant documents In these proceedings I shall invite was address followed certain
the Court and in the this allegation it is unnecessary for me to do more than refer your Lord-
your Lordship to say that it has been discussion statements were made which un- ship to a very pertinent admission clearly established that the actions have led to some mis-made by the debtor himself to your of the friendly creditors shew that fortunately hav
I am anxious, my Lordship a few weeks ago, during this bankruptcy was in substance understandt I can to dispel that his examination on 18th May. He bankruptcy for the bonent of the More Anti-British Lord. to do misunderstanding for which perhaps then said, there is a full note of debtor and that If the debtor had
Propaganda on himself, responsibility and this taken by your Lordship at the prevented the petition I must accept 'some I desire to avail myself of this op- time, that I dared to return to would have been dismissed. In these
LONDON, June 26. portunity to state that I unreservedly longkong because my people were circumstances there can be no doubt withdraw any statement of mine arrangmercover it is relevant to apply to this Court to ask for the the House of Commons to-day bankruptcy at my re-that the proper course is for me to REPLYING to questions in quest. which inay appear to have suggested that I was imputing dishonesty to any observe that when the petitioning adjudication order to be annulled,
creditor first presented his petition Mr. Andrewes then applied to his on Italian and German troops in the creditors. DI My complaints in these proceedings on 22nd December, 1930, the solicitor Lordship for Licut.-Col. H. L. Mur- Spain, Mr. R. A. Butler said he stepped aboard the K.P.M. iiner Vanspurt from the conduct of the then appearing for him said that the row of the Hongkong Daily Press, was satisfied that the great Ifcuts at Singapore to go home to debtor which I shall deal with relatives would be prepared to pro- who had been subpoenaed as a majority had been withdrawn.
limited to allegations vide the necessary 15 per cent as witness, to be released, us
said and he believed that the America--but when Mr. Jones steps ashore it. her homeland she will be of rentiarities on the part of certain long as the debtor could get the pro- unnecessary to call him. He,
I expressly dis-tection of bankruptcy. Further it that satisfactory explanations had minority still remaining would while alone. This afternoon at 5.30 o'clock the body of her husband will be laid claim any suggestion of fraud or dis-will be abundantly clear from the been given to him during the last also be withdrawn. to rest at IIappy Valley.
honesty against these creditors, their evidence of Miss Morrison that the few days as to why a request was engaged in conduct has, in my submission, been debtor Incurred his liability to her made to the Hongkong Daily Press Kanter in May, 1937, when an ex. to lend your Lordship by dishonestly pretending to be the on behalf of members of the family plosion occurred on board while the irregular បន
Intervention Agreement, and which over 40 years. The Tropics could to the conclusion that this bankruptcy compradore of the Banque Franco not to publish the public examination destroyer was patrolling in Spanish | not sap his proselytising fervour, but was in substance though not in form Chinoise, an office which he had in 1937 they supped his strength, and when a bankruptcy for the benefit of the ceased to hold a year prior to the
Once that is established, it debtor. he at last consented to give up the work and go home it was because of is only necessary for me to show that it the debtor had presented the failing health.
petition himself. he could not have succeeded because he could not have satisfied the Court that he was an honest man.
Mr. Jones had been missionary work in the Orient
for so
for called
once, but within 15 minutes the devout missionary had gone to meel
ed so long and so diligently.
This morning the Van Heulsz came
to its Happy Valley grave.
Japan Agrees To Start Negotiations
honest man.
shew that the debtor was dishonest.
to
These irregularities concern three friendly creditors--Kwan King Shut
proved-for-
it was
His Lordship granted Lieut.-Col. date when he was representing hin-Murrow's release,
Miss
Morrison's Testimony
MISS Ethel Morrison was next called to give evidence and said that E39 she called at the Banque de Franco-Chinoise to collect two of the bonds that she had. She saw the debtor behind the counter. She had then mentioned that she was lucky to have been able to get back the bonds, and also that she had been advised to sell them owing to the depreciation of gold.
for the
was
number
Referring to the damage to H.M.S.
waters in connection with the Non-
resulted in the loss of three lives, Mr. Butler revealed that the Govern- ment's claim was assessed at £127,000 and this would be presented to General Franco,
Colonel Llewellin, Parliamentary Sceretary to the Admiralty, was questioned with regard
the strength of British naval forces in the Far East, and he declared that British naval strengths throughout the world had received constant at- tention, It was not in the publle in-
attacks.
Silver Act İs Repealed
Washington, June 20.
TC-
He was apparently in good health on the journey from British India to Singapore by the new B, I. steamer
Alleged Irregularities Amra, and from Singapore to Hong- kong by the Van Heutsz. At 10
Now in these circumstances It will o'clock last night the Van Houtsz out-be apparent to your Lordship that side Hongkong was wailing to come certain matters referred to in my re- in with the dawn. About 11.15 p.m. port will have no bearing upon the
In May 1934, debtor telephoned her 1035 whether the debtor was interest- anxiously Mrs. Jones
matters which your Lordship has medical aid, stating that her husband decide, and it will only be necessary and asked if she had disposed of hered in any other ventures? had had a sudden heart attack.
Miss Morrison: He told me Interest to disclose further dispositions therefore for your Lordship to con- bonds and she replied in the negative.
them he knew someone who wanted Bank he was doing brokerage and
The British Government had noted Dr. K. C. Cheam gave assistance nt/sider those statements in my report lie said that if she wished to sell 1035 that apart from his duties in the of the fleet.
to call at which establish:
11) Irregularities on the part of to buy them and prom
Debtor ve me his telephone number in the recrudescence of unti-British at- tacks in the Italian press, declared Taiping Bult
Building. (2) that the debtor was tol "o" disposed
arrived ut.6.
and
Did he give-you-the-name-of-the Mr. Chamberlain, replying to ques the Saviour for whom he had labour- certain of the friendly creditors; and her house that enic that if she
bonds, he being the business?-No.
Minister added tions. At all times, up to the date of Issue that while regretting that these are It will be convenient therefore if compradoro of the Bank, could get a much better rate for her. She ob- into port with her flag at half-mast summarize to your Lordship, stained the bonds from the National of the writ, you were not aware of by no means calculated to maintain ples, as was the Anglo-Italian agree- The body of Mr. Jones was removed what in my submission, those trend City Bank and handed them to the the name of the business, only the good relations between the two peo-
Messrs. Brown, Jones funeral rities are; and secondly the facts und debtor. She believed, at the time, telephone number? Yes,
I
suggest to you that you were per-ment, they did not, at present, pro- parlour, and will be taken from there circumstances upon which I rely, that he was the compradore of the reetly aware that he was not the pose to take official notice of the
Bank.
He gave her an acknowledgment compradore of the Bank!--I beg your
I thought he was, He Suggesting that these allocks were pardon. (now deceased), Tan Shiu Kin and dated June 11, 1934. Whenever she told me that besides his duties in the grave violation of the Anglo-Italian
the Bank he the Procurator, and the irregularity telephoned to complained of in each of these three always there. In January 1930 the Bank, he was also doing brokerage agreement,. Mr. Noel Baker asked Did he not tell you he was interest-whether Mr. Chamberlain would con- proceeds of
ed in two businesses, the Ming Hing sider making a protest as a matter of Ebp cases is of the same character, asked him
and he asked her to wait. sale though there may be differences in
Yuen Banks? He principle. The Prime Minister to give him
ths and the Kwan three months' She was
piled:
"I would do so if I thought it degree In each case the aetion of notice If she wanted the money. never told me. the creditor was calculated to as Mr. Andrewes explained to Hist In fact, I suggest to you that you would do any good."--Reuter, sist the debtor by reducing the total Lordshipe that at the time of the first telephoned debtor in May, 1934, liabilities and thus enabling the sale of the bonds debtor gave Miss and you were given the telephone debtor
deposit a for less sum to Morrison $500 in cash and the receipt did not know the number wos 2 nber of the Kwan Yuen Bank?--I to LONDON, June 27. satisfy the 15 per cent. rule than and there
there was still the balance of the
bank's. He told me he was doing I have been the case if the full $7,000 outstanding. THE news that Japan has con-
liabilities had been disclosest
Continuing
Miss Morrison said that brokerage, and I thought that was sented to formal negotiations
The creditor Kwan King Shun, for when she asked for the money the the telephone number of the firm. with Great Britain in Tokyo example, agreed not to prove debt debtor told her it was impossible to
Before you. Issued the writ, you
to Messrs. G. K. Hall-Brution By a voice vote the Senate to-day probably explains the cryptic ex- of $30,000 and in fact died without let her have it then. She wanted the went pression of optimism in Mr. ning his proof but his executor money because she had made pre- and instructed them to write a letter repealed the Sliver Purchase Act for
the
acquisition of foreign silver de- parations-to-return-Home. "He-be-of Chamberlain's speech yesterday which time the figure on which the
of demand was address-spite the statements by Senator came very agitated and nervous and when he said there seems to be 15 per cent, deposit was calculated, said that if I pressed him I would ed to Choa. care of the Kwan Yuen Burkley, the majority leader in the
Bank? -I don't know.
Senate, that such action would hurt reason for hope that the dis-had already been
I
that it was not Choa who United States trade abroad. cussions between the British basis that all liabilities had been dis-et nothing," she added.
Senator Ashurst denounced closed. This is not a matter of mere Ambassador und
On August 20, 1030 she issued approached you in the Arst instance, Japaneseclosed
Inference. because the debtor himself
of Investment that the gold bonds "We get one dollar'a, worth of trade Foreign Minister in Tokyo will made an admission to me personally writ against him and he consented but you approached him to nie letters foreign silver purchases as a failure.. reach a settlement.
on 20th December, 1937, that this to judgment on November 7, 1936,
Bald.--United Press, The British Cabinet belloves that was the object of Kwan in agreeing for $27,072.38 and Rests. After she given him were no income? That is for every nine dollare invested" he
Your not to prove, and I am in position had obtained judgment debtor offered not true.
brrangement with debtor was Japan's ussent for negotiations in to produce to your Lordship docu-settlement of $5,000 in cash
$10,000 in monthly instalments of be- that at any time you required the
PARIS, June 20-M Albert Tokyo instead of at Tientsin improves mentary evidence of this fact.
The casc of Tong
three months' notice?I gave him resembles tween
Lebrun, the French President, will go the prospects for a settlement because
accept that offer because there was
notice in January, 1936 and again into Liege during July to visit the Inter- intentionally delayed proving a
guarantor at all.
March.
national Water Exhibition-Tron- About. week before Christmas, I put it to you that the offer made Ocean. However, few neutral diplomats) of $12,800 until 31st. May, 1937,
that if 1936, and just before bankruptcy to you after judgment had been thare the British faith in the modern- Lordship will readily see tion of Baron Hiranuma's Govern these liabilities had been disclosed proceedings against debtor were in- obtained was of $5,000 in cash and would have stituted, she went to see Fr. Noval the balance of the judgment debt, and ment as contrasted with the exuber-and proved for, they
Procurator of the Spanish ance of the militarists.
made a a substantial difference to the the In the meantime the Imperial De original it.
knew the debtor, and because the
you told that reported to have discussed
The house, to-day
estimat $1,000 each six months?—No. the report from Admiral Sir Percy His case is identical with that of the Mission.
Why Search Was Made at Tang's in that he proved for only ed to be worth $75,000, according to Noble regarding the conference
part of his claim, but with this dif-tho Land Office files which she had
Cross-examined by Mr. Wynter-. assist
her to Noval the balanco-
might be able to NOVIE
debtor.
the search against the property of. this day, proved for.
She In- balance which amounts to the very got the money from
formed Father Noval about the Broadwood Road a few weeks ago. large figure of $50,000.
She thought there might be a mort.. Her but he
that he was ex- She matter but Bald $12,000 Diffaronco So that I may summarize the effect tremely sorry he could do nothing gage on the house, as Fr. Noval had will affect other signatories to the of these irregularities' on the part of for her because the debtor owed the mentioned a mortgage. She did not sare, ateained muscles; rheumatie palm 450 Nine Power Treaty, including China. Kwan, Tang and the Procurator by Mission between $50,000 to $60,000 know what the mortgage was, and saying that if they had all proved in mortgage. Debtor also owed a had not naked Fr. Noval about it. at the proper time in the proper way great deal of money in house rent. Mr. Brutton had informed her that Cross-Examination
the house in Broadwood Road former- for the full amount of their claim,
ly belonged to m, before it was sold Cross-examined by Mr. Silva, Miss to the Mission. the total liabilities would have
ex-Morrison said that up to 1933, abe When Mr. Prior asked Miss Morri- SINGAPORE, June 20-Two more been swelled by an
have contributed seeding $90,000, and consequently knew that debtor was the compradore whether it was her intention-to Melayan States towards the cost of imperial defence, the debtor would have hind to deposit of the Blank.. At the time, the writque execution if the application, was Struito turther $12,000 at least, to secure was issued, she had heard he had left granted, Mr. Andreves objected. Brunel donating 100,000
the Bank. dollers, and Trengganu giving $50,- bis order.
Mr. Silva: Did you know after PLEASE Turn To Pago 4. 000 --Reuter.
The conduct of these three credi
on
Offer Rejected
and
That
it will minimise the influence of the Kwan's in this respect, that Tang to $250 and $300. She refused money back, you had to give hima !
Japanese military.
по
so.
amount which the debtor had Dominican Minsion, as she knew he not $10,000 by Instalments? That is fence Committee at a special meeting to Lasily, the case of the Procurator, debtor lived in a house belonging to bewaren 9250 to $300 per you would
She
S that the Government is ference, that he has never, even to searched. She had hoped that Fr. Blyth, Miss Morrison, said she made
to
planning to send naval reinforcements
Far East have been denied. Lord Halifax to-day received the Chinese Ambassador who is under-
to have
Lord reminded Halifax that the Tientsin situation
stood
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