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JERUSELEM, TO-DAY. THE THREE KINGS OF THE

With 12 months' experience in the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation as an office boy, 18- year-old Ho Mong-sang forged a bearer cheque for $14,000, and,] he admitted to-day, contributed ARAB STATES OF IRAQ, SAUDI- to the defeat of an elaborate pro- ARABIA AND YEMEN HAVE AD- tective system used by the Bank. DRESSED A FURTHER MEMOR

The office-boy and his alleged con- ANDUM TO LONDON DEMAND- federates, 35-year-old Leung Po, and a ING, ACCORDING TO THE ARAB 16-year-old Chinese girl, Au Yeung NEWSPAPER "ADDIFAEA," AN. Sau-chun, were arrainged before the

IMMEDIATE ACTION TO BRING Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor,

at the Criminal Sessions this morning, ABOUT A CHANGE IN THE SI- facing seven charges in connection |TUATION IN PALESTINE. with, the prosecution alleged, this "ex- tremely ingenious fraud.'

All three Arab rulers it is stat-

The office-boy; through his 'counsel, ed, see themselves placed in a criti- Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, admitted steal-

their

ing a blank cheque and forging it, but cal position with respect to denied that there was a conspiracy be- people owing to the fact that it tween himself and second accused to was through their intervention that defraud the bank.

the big Arab general strike in Second accused, who was also repre- sented by Mr. Anderson, pleaded not Palestine in the year 1936 was call- guilty to charges of uttering a forg-ed off. ed cheque, obtaining $14,000 by It was done so on the promise of forged cheque, and receiving stolen the British Government that 3 greater regard would be paid to Arab interests in Palestine.

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property. Third accused denied that she received part of the stolen money. CROWN CASE Outlining the case, Crown Counsel,

March 28 last at about 10 a.m. a man,

the

not

In the meanwhile the Arab resis- in

cut

Mr. E. H. Williams stated that on tance to the British measures alleged to be second accused, entered Palestine is constantly growing, the Overseas Chinese Banking Cor-according to reports issued yester- poration and tendered a bearer cheque day by the British police authori- for $14,000. The cheque purported to ties. In five cases the telegraph have been signed by one Ping Y.

wire were Chang, made payable to Li Fong.

severed and the tele- The amount was paid to this man in graph posts.

down. Trans- $500 bank-notes, but later in

the Ocean. afternoon, after first accused had dis- appeared, it was discovered that cheque was a forgery and had passed through the necessary channels. Crown Counsel explained that 1. cheque before cashed must necessarily bear the signatures or initials of the ledger, clerk, current accounts', clerk, sub-accountant and assistant manager on it, but this forged cheque for $14.- 000 did not pass through the hand of these four persons although the sup- posed initials were on it, for there was no entry in the ledger book, nor was there any entry in the special book kept for cheques over $5,000.

LIVED TOGETHER First accused had been since April last and his duties to take documents and cheques from A cleavage of opinion is said to one bank official to another.

have occurred in the Iraq Cabinet The Crown alleged that first accus-over the question of the future of ed was the inside person responsible, the Shatt El Arab oil concessions.

a large way, for the ingenious

in

fraud.

employed

were

IRAQ CABINET TROUBLES

CAIRO, TO-DAY.

A CRISIS HAS BROKEN OUT IN THE IRAQ GOVERNMENT ACCORDING TO DESPATCHES FROM BAGDAD TO EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPERS.

The Minister for Economic

Af- First and second accused lived to- fairs and Communications is said gether in the same house about six to have threatened to resign owing years

ago and during the past six to the standpoint_adopted_in_this___ months had been seen frequently-to--| gether. Third accused, stated Mr. matter by the Minister. for Foreign Williams, visited first accused at the Affairs. bank quite often.

:

Although the Prime Minister has In the afternoon before the fraud succeeded in inducing the Minister was discovered, first accused disap- peared, but in the drawer of his desk for Economic Affairs to remain in were found pieces of paper which office, it appears from later reports showed that he had been practising the that difficult days are in store for initials necessary to have a cheque his Government.-Trans-Ocean. passed and also the name of Ping Y.

Chang, whose signature was forged on

the cheque.

SAMPAN ARRESTS

Second accused "Vas arrested on

March 29, and first and, third on March M. CORBIN GOES TO

31 in a sampan in the Aberdeen Har- bour.

In the lining of one of her shoes were found two $500 notes. Eleven similar notes were found in her right stocking, six in her left stocking, and five in her jacket pocket.

She claimed that the money had been forced on her.

The case is continuing.

APOSTOLIC NUNCIO

TO FRANCO

PARIS

Paris, To-day. The French Ambassador in Lon- don, M. Charles Corbin, is at pre- sent in Paris for reporting pur- poses.

Yesterday he had a conversation with the Foreign

M... Minister Georges Bonnet, just returned from Geneva, about the reactions of the meeting of the League Council, on the Spanish conflict and on the pro- gress of the Franco-Italian ne-

It is believed that M. Corbin in-

Rome, To-day.gotiations. Pope Pius XI has appointed formed the Foreign Minister also Monsignore Gaetano Cicognani, the Archbishop of Ancara, as Apostolic of the London conversations regar

German pro- insurgent Spanish ding the Sudeten

blem-Trans-Ocean.

Nuncio to the Government.

The Rev. D. Donnelly, of

Wah

As already reported, Senor Yan- guas Y Messia has been appointed by the Insurgent Spanish Govern- ment as Ambassador and Plenipo-Yan College, has reported the loss tent to the Holy See-Trans- of text books and a fountain pen Ocean.

from the school.