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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926.

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GEN. LUDENDORFF NEW NYK. OFFICE. VON BISSING'S BAN.

REVELATIONS AFTER A

SECRET LAWSUIT.

AS TAX-DODGER,

Berlin, July 25. The revela- tion that General Ludendorff, the German National leader, attempt ed to send his personal fortune out of the country in 1922, when the export of capital was forbid- den, followed an action which he brought against Herr Adolf, Borchardt, his banker.

It appears that the 'general, eager to save the small fortune which accrued from his post-war literary activities, instructed his barker to remit his money abroad, and to purchase for him gilt edged foreign securities.

The general's plan was detected' after one or two remittances were made to a Swiss bank, which sub- sequently went bankrupt, and his fortune disappeared during the inflation

General Ludendorff sted the banker for the money which had thus been lost. and although the trial was held in camera the affair leaked out." The former military idol of Germany is said to have now no other means than his pension..

CITY IN A DEPLORABLE “

CONDITION.

حصبي

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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK WILL HE SITE OF BUILDING..

STRONG DECLARATION IN HIS WILL.

IN SHANGHAL.

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ENGLISH ESTATE.

The will of Baron Walteri Tokyo. August 25 Announcement was made yester

Adolphus

Bissing, half- von day by Mr. Yasuji Shimizu, general brother of the German Military manager of the Nippon Yuson Governor of Belgium, which was Kaisha, of the reaching of a de- published recently, is notable for ciston by the corporation to oreet its strong anti-German feeling, a new office building in Shanghai Baron yon Bissing, a German by: In an interview with the "Japan birth and a naturalised British Times," Mr. Shimizu explained that subject, died domiciled in Italy; the new structure would be built, aged 70. Formerly he was for on the site of the old Yokohama many years a prominent resident Specie Bank on the Whampoo of Hove. waterfront overlooking the public! He left, exclusive of settled and gardens close to the British Con- foreign estate, unsettled property sulate. The purchase of the Yoko in England valued at £1,178, with hama Specie Bank building and net personalty 1,136. Probate premises of 600 tsubo of land was of the will, daten last April, has approved as a directors meeting been granted to his widow, recently, Mr. Shimizu said,

Baroness von Bissing, of 50, Ted- To Cost Million Yen.

worth Square, Chelsea, S.W. The Decision to erect a new buildingBaron stated in his will:- at an expenditure of a million yen was made because of the faith held by officials of the Japanese shipping concern in the future of Shangha according to Mr. Shimizu,

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Local businessmen have long the Chinese port city and to mest foreseen the further, expansion of

the growing passenger trade which was accelerated with the acquis tion of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha flecti directors of the astablishment

circumn

"I desire particularly to express in the most emphatic and precise. terms that under no stances whatever is any German. whether relation of mine or other-i wise, to have any voice or right in bringing of "my children." or over the guardianship or up-

He

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He left 2500 to his solicitor,) Edward A. L. Smith, Gray's Inn Square, W.C., in appreciation of THE SINCERE COMPANY, LIMITED. SCAVENGERS' STRIKE sity of opening new and larger perty to his widow.

unanimously agreed on the neces-his services, and all his other pro- quarters in Shanghai, the general the Nippon Yuuen manager of Kaisha explained.

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