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M.Y. SAN AND CO. SUED

$420,000 Indirectly Involved.

UNSECURED CREDITOR

CLAIMS $825.60

Judgment

Was

reserved by

Mr. Justice P. Jacks in a case in- volving, indirectly, the sum $420,000, when Mrs,

of Li Hon- ping, of No. 63. Bonham Road) sued Messrs. M. Y. San and Co.,) (1927). Ltd.. of No. 96. Queen's Road Central. for $825.60, claim- ed to be the balance due against the defendants, as the makers of a promissory note in favour of plaintiff. on September 15. 1928. payable within four years from date in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction this morning.

of Messrs. Mr. H. L. Dennys,

the Dennys and Co., represented defendants, the plaintiff being re- presented by Mr. J. T. Prior of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist.

Mrs. Li's claim is in respect to the balance of a deposit made with Messrs. M. Y. San and Co., Ltd., in When the liquidation, of 32,000. company went into liquidation in 1927 the unsecured creditors were, according to a clause in the Com-¡ pany's deed of arrangement,

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934.

There's a vale of tears in the guns wielded by these Cuban Army regulars patrolling the Presidential Palace in Havana. Instead of bullets the guns are loaded with tear gas. Without the masks, the marksmen would be hoist by their own Detard.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

INGENIOUS FRAUD ON WOMAN

Jewellery Deposit On Bundle Of "Notes."

money

RIPTIDE

*WHEN A WOMAN. LOVES *

ADAPTED BY LUCY HUFFAKER

FROM THE SOKJER PLAY BY EDMUND GOULIES A METRO-colowra-maven secrURE

FOREWORD

Mary, the American bride of brilliant young Lord Rexford is happy in her new home and 'she and her husband love each other devotedly, although at times he warns her that her and English relatives friends may not understand They her humorous remarks.

when a are bath overjoyed daughter, Pamela, is born to them.

new

ON

CHAPTER III

their life The whole story of might have been different if Lady Hetty Riversleigh had not arrived in London the day before Lord Rexford was to sail for America. She was his aunt and what is known as a "character." Her social position was secure because of her birth and breeding, and she was very rich, but her greatest delight was to shock everyone by ber uncon- ventional conduct and outspoken re- marks. She lived on the Riviera because ns

told everyone she (especially English people) she loathed England and found English people stuffy and stupid. Secretly she may have been proud of Philip but when he was mentioned she

"RIPTIDE"

One hour

The serial story of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer screen play by Edmund Goulding, which is coming shortly to the Queen's Theatre, will be continued to-

me,

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N their fifth wedding anni-called him an unsufferable prix or

versary, Mary told herself something like that. that their marriage had been a after they arrived in London," she success. That she and Philip informed her secretary that she still loved each other deeply there couldn't stand it-they would re was no question. Pamela was a turn the next day to Cannes. to For the theft of a radiator cap

charming child and they both idolised her. Lord Rexford was receive 80 per cent. of their claims, from cur No. 1740,, belonging to Mr.

growing in importance and fame in the proportion of 40 per cent. E. W. Simmons, outside the Sea- Chiu Institute yesterday,

and she was proud of him. But, in shares in the new Company, the men's

Li Sing-ho, 43-year-old woman,-it was silly perhaps, to dwell remaining 40 per cent. to be paid Luen-cheung, unemployed, was sen-

was on such a thing-there were within a period of four years, pro- tenced to four months' hard labour)

to by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-of No. 71 Tong Meu Street,

walking along Shanghai Street last times when she almost resented It vided the Company were able

night when two men, both unknown his absorption in his work. pay this amount out of profits. In tral Magistracy this morning. this respect. asknowledgments.

to be wife, but she loved him so much One case of typhoid fever and to her, came up with a bundle and was not that she was a neglected were given to the unsecured cre-' ditors setting out the scheme of one case of humun rabies were re-said it was some

ported in the Colony during the 24 changed at a bank and asked her to she would have liked to share in puss it for them, promising her $100 everything which concerned him. re-payment.

He was inclined, she felt, to con-i

"I haven't been here reward. Mr. Prior claims for the plain hours ending June 10. tiff. that this acknowledgment of

They then took of her jewellery, sider her only as a beloved wife,

devoted mother. a chaming years and I was a fool to come at

all. I'm not going to see Professor L. Forster, of the Hong his client's claim is a promissory nate, or, that if it is not a promis- Kong University, will be the speaker to the value of $23.40, as security, a

"This is ridiculous" she said to the family-if they want

they

to a decent herself. "I suppose every woman sory note, it is a clear contract in at the Rotary Club tiffin to-day, his and disappeared. When Li opened hostess.

subject being "The Nature of the bundle she found only scraps of writing.

paper in it.

who knows me, envies me my happy place to see me. Except Philip- and I don't care about him but I Laughter."

a few days later that hear this American wife of his has amusing or she'd ica on an important commissien. can't be very She took it for granted that she never have married such a bore as HARBOUR.

I like Americans was to go with him. She had not he is. Still

laugh or $10,000 Bail Granted, been to America since her marriage they always give me a

It was still in a way "home" to two."

In vain did the secretary remind her-and she loved to travel. It Two charges, of being in posses- seemed it had never occurred to her her that she had ordered him to M. Y. San and Co. She did not China Athletic Association's bath- attend the creditors' meeting when ing pavilion, was sent to the Gov-sion of 3.120 taels of raw oplum at husband to take her, or that she close the Villa. They would, go to ernment Civil Hospital last even-Victoria Harbour, and of being in would expect to go. When she told the Carlton then. She was in high the company was wound up.

Witness stated that she received ing, suffering from injuries sustain-possession of 50 taels of prepared him she wanted to go, there were humour and the secretary

pointed out, for despair as they set out for the Rex- serip in the new Company, valued ed when he fell off a platform into eplum, were preferred against Ligood reasons he

Ho, a sailor on board the launch, his objections. It was to a hurried ford mansion in Grosvenor Square.

Mary's greeting delighted her. at $860, being 40 per cent. of her the water.

Sing Chau, and Ho Kam-fuk, 2trip, going from place to place; it

"Aunt Hetty! she exclaimed. "At deposit, with interest, and was told

the Central Magis-would be foolish to take Pamela that she would receive repayment Ching Chan, employed at the Tai-boatman, at

ahould not be left with last! I've waited five years to see! of the other 40 per cent. within koo Dockyard, wae admitted to the tracy this morning before Mr. E and ahe

servants, and nurses; it would be what I'm like."

about" Government Civil Hospital yester-W. Hamilton,

"What is she talking four years.

of Mr. On the application

M too tiring for Mary. She was hurt Several small repayments had day, suffering from shock and head been made to plaintiff reducing injuries when he fell into the tank Silva, who appeared on behalf of as well as disappointed, but she did Lady Hetty asked Philip. "I knew

which the twe defendants, the case was not press the matter.

Deed of Arrangement Filed. Mr. Wong Tal, clerk to the Re- gistrar of Companies. gave formal

14

2 Davis

Wong Cheong, of No. evidence that on November 29, Street. West Point, was admitted

lot."

It was

1927, the deed of arrangement for to the Government Civil Hospital OPIUM SEIZURE IN Philip told her he must go to Amer-some ginger to her though she

winding up Messrs. M. Y. San and yesterday, suffering from a crushed Company, was filed.

Anger sustained at the China Can-

Mrs. Li Hon-ping, plaintiff, iden- 'ing Company.

tified the note, and stated that she

had deposited $2,000 with Messrs. Mo Yen, an employee of the South

11

It was

the Talkoo remanded until next Monday. Bail

of $10,000 each, was granted.

Personal Pars

the claim from $860.00 to $425.60. on board the s.s. Luchow,

Mr.

his defence, was lying alongside Dennys, in Hlated that the note was not a pro- Dock. missory note, it was not even Chinese borrowing note.

Leung Ping, unemployed, was sen- merely a record of what was ow- tenced to two months' hard labour ing to plaintiff when the Company Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central

The forthcoming wedding of Lin wound up.

The Company handed Magistracy this morning for the On-wab, teacher, of No. 282, Lock-

tap, two out scrip to 40 per cent., and, un- theft of a brass water der the deed of arrangement they electric switches and a brass lame hart Road, and Yip Hing-chee, of agreed to pay the other 40 per sockel from No. 364 Des Voeux Road No. 186, Lockhart Road,

cent. if profits were made.

West, second floor, occupied by Chan $420.000 Unsecured Creditors. Tick. Lo Lam-chor, auditor of the de- fendant Company, gave evidence

the amount due by the company to without an authorised permit, Wong

nounced.

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I'd laugh. This is delightful."

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Sentence of four months' hard

Philip who had been talking with labour was imposed on So Hoi-fat, David Fenwick, his secretary had SOLE "DISTRIBUTORS Mrs. Felix A. Joseph, will leave unemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamil-not heard this conversation. Pleading guilty to a charge ofjoy the R. M. S. Empress of Asin ton at the Central Magistracy this looked at his watch anxiously and! of the winding up, and stated that having returned from banishment on Friday for England via Canada.morning for attempted burglary by said he must leave in a few minutes entering an unnumbered dwelling as he had little time to catch thei

Chinese Permanent bost train. Mias C. M. Crawford leaves by house at the unsecured creditors, on notes simi- Kwok-fai, 29-year-old unemployed the R. M. S. Empress of Asia on Cemetery, Aberdeen, with intent

"I'm sorry to love you just as I've lar to that of the plaintiff, was Chinese was sentenced to 12 months' Friday on a short holiday in Japan. to commit a felony.

found you" said Lady Hetty to $42,000. The authorlacd capital hard labour by Mr. E. 1. Wynne

Inspector Armitt stated that no Mary. of the new Company was $1,000,-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy Mr. G. L. Wilson, of Messrs. Pal-eused was convicted on a similar

"Oh, I'm not going" said Mary. this morning. Wong was banished)

mer and Turner, Shanghai, who charge five or six years ago, and "I'm not to go to the bout even to Concluding his case Mr. Dennys last year for a period of 10 years. has been visiting Hong Kong with that defendant was adopted by the see him off. Would you believe that again stressed that the note was

his wife, will return to the north- complainant when he was six years once he got off a boat just as it was not a promissory note, and stated) Appearing on a summons, Sangern port by the B. M. S. Empress old. He had been given every sailing because he simply couldn't that the sum of $420,000 was in-Kun-fook, driver of private car No. of Asia on Friday, volved if His Lordship gave judg-'426, was fined $15 by Mr. E. W. ment for plaintiffs, every other Hamilton at the Central Magistracy unsecured creditor being Imme this morning for driving at a speed ton-Smith, of the Hong Kong Uni- diately placed in a position to sue of 45 miles an hour in Hennessy versity, will visit their aon in the Company on their notes.

-000.

AMMUNITION IN

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Farmer Fined $75.

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$5,000 FINE FOR UNEMPLOYED.

False Sides And Bottom In Wooden Trunk.

Yip Koon-hal, a '89-year-old} farmer, was fined $75, in default three weeks' imprisonment, by

A fine of $5,000, in default 12 Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the

months' hard labour, was imposed Central Police Court this morn-

Jon Ng Ting-hing, unemployed, by ing, for being in possession of 16 r. E. W. Kamilton at the Central rounds of ammunition at the

Magistracy this morning for being! Luen Chung Wharf yesterday.

Inspector Stimson stated that in possession of 260 taels of raw

the ammunition was found under-

loplum.

Professor C. A. and Mrs. Middle-

Shanghal, leaving on Friday by the R. M S. Empress of Asia. ́.

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EUROPEAN ROBBED OF CLOCK. Former Employee. Of Broker Gaoled.

sail without me and now he won't even take me on a boat with him?" This is strictly a business trip" anid Philip.

"I know that" said Mary. "But make me a part of the business. I've not forgotten my stenography and you're always overworking Fen- wick."

"All of which means just what?" Sentence of one month's hard asked Lord Rexford.

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labour was imposed on Ma' Fung- "That joke 'didn't go very well, SLOVENIA'S OLDEST shen, unemployed, by Mr. E. W-did it?", Mary said in a strange Hamilton at the Central Magia-voice to Lady Hetty.

tracy this morning, for stealing an "Was it a joke" the older woman

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IL. B. Joseph, broker, of No.

very serious." Felix Villa yesterday,

"I was" said Mary half under her Inspector Hourihan stated that breath. accused was a former employee of Mr. Joseph's

Philip was ready to leave, Mary followed him to the hall for a fare- well alone.

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JAPAN HOLDS 'SHAM BATTLES IN NORTH

The Japanese guards stationed in Tangahan, along the Peking-Muk- den line, have fust ended, a-tour- day sham battle in the area, according to a Chinese despatch.

The oldest woman in Slovenia, This is reported to be the fourth They held each other Jelen Jers, has died at the age of sham battle staged in the area in When accused was arrested in The purchase of 24 amphibian AVIATION EXPERT FOR EUROPE in a long embrace, he murmured 106. She had been a widow for 85 the month.

over and over that he loved her. years. the accused's hat. Inspector Stimson said that he had been in-Connaught Road, Central, yester airplanes has been announced by

Gen. Mao Fan-chu, vice-President that he would be home soon, that has a young girl she worked as a

Then navy on the railway which the her marriage in 1849 and remained structed by the Director of Cri-day, he was carrying a suitcase the Minister of Defenca' as a part

were building between a widow till her death, She still minal Intelligence. to ask the and a wooden trunk in which the of Australia's programme to in of the Hangchow Aviation School, would telephone her often.

and refused to be comforted.- Magistrate to take a serious view opfum was found hidden in false crease defenses in view of the un-is leaving for Europe and America he was gone and Mary went back Italians

certain situation in the Far East. to study aviation in July, according to Aunt Hetty. She rang for a Trieste and. Vienna. She lived all sorrowed for her dead husband

her life at Slovenska Bistrica“ - In the case, as there had been sides and bottom.

Jelen was widowed shortly after Reuter. Revenue-Officer A. W. Grimmitt In addition a contract was lot to a Nanking telegram. He will servant.

(Continued on Page 10 quite a number of people traffic-

rosecuted,"

a7,500-ton crufser,!

be away for seven months)-- ing in arms recently.