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extract from Canton Gazette of 26th November. 1941.
MILION-DOLLAR: ARU:
CASAPPAL DIGMI BED.
After several hearing lasting several wooks Judge
Liu of the Frovincial nigh Court, on the 24th instant
delivered judgment on the Arms Coal Case appeal
submitted by Messrs. Siemsson & Co. (respondents,
Kwangtung Aviation Bureau). The appeal was dismi:sed
with costa ordered paid by appellante.
The case concerned the fail re of the appellant
to deliver a chigo of aeroplanes and aaminition ordered
and fully paid for by the aviation Bureau. The
original judgment, which is now upheld, required the
defenuants, now appellant, to return to the aviation
Bureau the purchaLe price paid plus interest.
ir. . P. Chion, counsel for the Aviation Bureau,
persistently stre:bed the point that according to
Chinese lax, the handing over of the 3111 of Lading
does not constitute a discharge of the antire
obligation of the vendor of the burgo, as claimad
by the appellant firm.