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SPECULATION IN DIFFERENCES.

WELL-KNOWN LONDON FIRM SUED.

'ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO

SMUGGLE PISTOLS.

MAN FOUND IN POSSESSION OF ELEVEN WEAPONS.

Members of the Greater Shanghai An action arising out of deals in Public Safety's water police arrest- differences," raising the questioned a French sailor attached to the whether or not they were gambling crew of the M.M.S. D'Artagnan transactions, came before Mr. Jus tice Rowlatt in the King's Bencharly on Sunday morning for at

Division last month.

The plaintiff, Mr. Constantine Albert Brown, a journalist, of

Elm Park Road, London, S.W., sued St Phalle, Limited, of York House, Lower Regent Street, Lea

don, for the return of sums total- ling £1,200 which he lost. in trans- motions with the 'defendants. '

Mr. Brown said that at their

tempting to smuggle eleven pistols inta Shanghai..

The water police were going on their usual rounds when they notic ed two foreigners acting in what they characterized as "a very aus picious manner

on

board the D'Artagnan, which was lying along side the China Merchants' Central Wharf. Approaching in a sampon, office the defendants had an indica. the police succeeded in arresting tor showing the actuations of sea- one of the men, the other escaping sitive stocks. He paid £304 as alu possession of the arrested man deposit and was allowed to sit in

were found the eleven pistols. the room and deal in stocks.

The arrested man was removed to the Bureau of Public Safety but, after it had been ascertained that he was of French-nationality, he was handed over to the French Con-

miste-General,

In the same room the defendants' clerks entered up the transactions, After winding 400 on his first deal, Mr. Brown said, he began to lose, It was never suggested to him, that be should take up the stocks ór The man is, being detained on becoine a shareholder in any com- board the ship and will later be

taken back to France for trial. pany. He alleged that the trues- actions were gaming transactions.-C. Duily News, and that the money was recoverable.

The defandants' case was that the transactions represented real commercial dealings. They were agents for Mr. Brawn, and the dif- ferences became payable by them.

Sir Walter Schwabe, K.C.,, far the defendants, said that there was at contract note given to Mr. Brown in respect of each transaction. St. Phalle, Limited, were bankers and. brokers in a big way of business in European capitals. They were in touch with St. Phalle and Co., in New York, and half the firms cu the London Stock Exchange deals through them on the market in New York..

At the close of Mr. Brown's case, Mr. Justice Rowlatt held that Mr. Brown had failed to make cut his case. It had been field, he said, that agreements between buyers and sellers of stock and shares who were to pay or receive the difference be tween prices on different dates, were gaming transactions.

That was not the present case, There was no evidence that the de- fendants were the buyers of sellers of stock; the evidence of Mr. Brown (Continued on next Column.}

was on the opposite footing. It did not seem to him that the de- fendants were principals in the matter at all. 31r. Brown could close the transaction at any time he liked, for there was no settling day.

The defendants establishment, said the Judge, appeared accord ing to Mr. Brown to be calculated to encourage and facilitate specula tion-gambling in shares-by members of the public who were so foolish and inexperi- enced as to want to do it.

stocks

and

I meant that they had adopted Ru extraordinarily attractive and showy and perhaps convenient, me- thod of exhibiting to those foolish persons the course of prices on the New York Stock Exchange. That, however, did not add to the legal features of the case.

In his judgment, Mr. Brown had failed to make out his case, and the action must be dismissed. On a counter-claim, he gave judgfhent for St. Phalle, Limited, for £84 108. with casts.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL

THE JULIAN OIL CO. SCANDAL!

NEW JUDGE APPOINTED.

TWO SCORE PERSONS INDICTED,

(UNITED FRESS.)

Los Angeles, March 28-A new trial judge was assigned to-day to deal with eases arising out of the action accordingly became more Julina Oil Co. debuelo of 1997 and

likely.

Baron Fitts, the district attorney, who, had said yesterday that pre judica on, the part of the former. trial judge would block further proceedings, announced to-day that. he is much pleased with the now turn and that he is now willing to proceed.

From a list of these against whom indictments had been returned some time ago, Mr. Fitts selected Jacob Berman to go before the grand jury and give fresh testi- mony which is expected to open the unde again.

The witness has promised to "tell all in return. for personal immun- ity from prosecution, according to the district attorney.

Details of the anticipated testi- mony could not be learned but there is much speculation as to whether it will in some way involve. the Far East spending tour" of Mrs. B. C. Lewis, wife of the pre- sident of the company, who is per sistently although only intangibly linked in the press with the my sterious disappearance of some $35,000,000 of the company's funds.

Extensive Indictments."

Two secret indictments, under. stood to have named from 35 to 40. persons on charges of conspiracy to commit usury in connection with the $100,000,000 Julian Oil Co. smash, were voted by the grand jury here to-day after tentimony had been given by Jacob Berman.

Mr Berman is a former execu- tive of the Julian Oil Co. He had been himself charged in connection with the smash of the concern, but consented to appear before the grand jury and implicate others when Buren Fitts, district attor ney, promised him personal im- munity in return.

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4. Solo Violin: Viennese Popular Song (E. Sabinano), by Mr. -Kreisler.

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Irish Rhapsody" (Victor Her

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Komin Susser Tod (Come Sweet Death) (Bach) and "1. Wie- genlied (Cradle Song); 2. Sap phische Ode (Sapphic Ode) (Brahms), Hulda Lashanska, Soprano with chorus and or Organ Prelude and Fague In A Minori" (Bach-Liszt). Mischa Levitzki, Piano Solo. How Beautilul Upon The Moun tains" (F. Flaxington Harker) and The Holy City" (F. E. Weatherly Stephen Adams), Marion Talley, Soprano with orchestra.

Waltz Invitation

(Weber, Op. 6), "Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the. direccion of Leacold Stokowski. Scotch Pastorale (Gustav Saenger, Op. 130, No. 9) and "Prayer" Handel Glesch), Yehudi Menuhin, Violin Solo with piano.

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EXPERIMENTS WITH

POISON GAS.

PROTEST AGAINST USE OF

ANIMALS.

SPY.

HOTEL CHIEF'S, WAR EXPERIENCE.

The, adventures which come to a man who has managed great hotels for thirty years were revealed to a Press representative last month, when M. John Peters, who is retir- ing at sixty-three from the manage-- ment of the Grosvenor Hotel," Lon- don, recalled his experiences.

Mr. Peters, a dapper figure with an expert knowledge of what men should wear, looked at his finger nails, and on their polished surface seemed to see reflecteil a host of

King: The use of living animals for interesting personalities... Salis Edward was one of those poison-gas experiments on bury Plain was the subject of a "I was a boy then," said Mr. meeting of protest at the Friends Peters, and word came that King House, London, recently. It was Edward was visiting the Grand convened by the Animal Defence Hotel, where I was then employed, and Anti-Vivisection Society. Miss to see the Queen of Sweden. Lind-at-Hageby was in the chair, "I rushed down to the hall,

had and the Duchess of Hamilton and bowing, begged his Majesty ta Dr. Fielding-Ould spoke.

allow me to conduct him to the Queen. It was a great moment. I was filled with pride-nearly burst-

Mr. Peters..erasained Kia. Anger. nails more closely, and added, "But King Edward waved me to one side with the remark, Run away, my boy. I know the way quite well.'

The society approached the War Office on January St for an intor view with Mr. T. Shaw, the Minising with it." ter for War, but received a refusal, the reply saying that the exper inents on animals at Porton are carried out strictly in accordance with the provisions of the law, and that after careful consideration he does not see his way to order their discontinuance, so long as they may result in possible benefit to human life and health.

A Radio Mystery. Mr. Feters namowly escaped ar- rest as a spy during the war, when Foch, Haig, French, and other. great mea

were staying at the

It is stated that cats, horses, hotel. goats, monkeys, rabbits, guires "An Army captain reported pigs, rata and mice have been having heard mysterious messages sed in these experimente. From in Morse code after going to bed. November 1 to April 20 last year These were sensational, and dealt 1,134 animals, were used for experi- with an imaginary. British, victory mental purposes at the Chemical and plans to blow up German war

Experimental Warfare

Station. ships. The messages had appar Porton. Of these 446 were killed (ently emanated from my own suite at the botel, and there was unplea- by the experiments.

sant talk of taking me to the Tower.

two or three years, and throughou: that time he had two large teddy bears. He used to speak to these, and would hook three stalls at the theatres.

I

"I protested my innocence, -and evoliner that I was a Yorkshire man by birth.

It turned out that the messages were sent hy my youngest san, who was learning the Morse code, to Two of the seats would be or sister from one room to anoth cupied by his teddy bears. I was Mr. Peters chuckled. told that a tragedy lay behind his habit, and that the toys were all be had to remind him, of his dead children."!

"The mean with the teddy bears was the strangest guest we have ever had," he said. He stayed (Continued on preceding column).

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