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PRISONER IN BOX.

(Continned from Page 1). ing to Canton to get the contribu- tlons, and to give also tho bar gale money paid to each on his return, witness enumerated them as follows: The runner, $50; the cashier, $30; the counter man, $20; and the clerk $30.

As to the offices for the Bank, he had already arranged for the oc- cupation of certain premises near the old Fire Brigade Station in Queen's Road Central, a sum of $100 being paid as bargain money and possession promised in three

Yos

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1926.

Has be repaid you that money? CANTON AND HUNAN.

And have you repaid it to the Kwong Cheong?--No..

PRIVATE ACCOUNTS.

THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

From Wuchow comes news that May take it that throughout General Sum Hung-ying, who was this period when you were drawing recently defeated by General Wong from the Kwong Choong account Shiu-hung and retired into the for your wife's wearing apparel, mountains of Kwangsi, hus now for loans to friends, etc., you had emerged from his retirement with no available cash of your own?-n considerable force under his Very little.

command. has captured the districts of Yung Reports state that he Kong, Har Kong, Yung Chung, Lai Yung and others on the Kwangsi- Kwoichow frontiers...

Could you not have got it from the Bank of East Asia?--Yes, I had an account there.

Or from your savings account at the Industrial and Commercial Bank?--Yes,

It is atated that General Sum Js endeavouring to make a june- Can you give us any valid reason tion with Wu Pei-fu's forces weeks time.. These preliminary why you did not draw this money expenses, in the form of bargain from either of your other accounts? operating against Hunan from five money to the lessors of the pre-I could draw it from any account directions General Weng Shui- anises and the officers of the new I like,

$2,000?—Yes.

Bank and amounting to $240, On August 10th, you paid in wer to come out of the capital that was to be collected, and were all the expenses incurred in the matter.

Questioned in regard to the ac count opened at the Industrial and Commercial Bank on the 7th August, 1923, in the name of "Kwong Cheung.". witness said that it was opened solely for the purposes of his new banking en-j terprise, with his own private

monies.

THE CAPITAL.

ed it.

Where did you get it-I collect Who From? A man who owed me it. He explained that the $2,000 when put in represented $1,000 of his outstanding share subscription and $1,000 which he put la for his private purposes."

On the same day you drew a bearer eheque for $3.000%-Yes.

What did you do with it?-I lent; it to Tai Hang.

Who is Talang?-A merchant, Where-In Wing Lok Street. What number?--I forget.

hung is said to have proceeded post-haste to the Kwangsi-Hunan

frontier.

said to account for the sudden'

These now developments are: departure of General Pei Shung- hee from Canton.

A report from Canton says that the Government is greatly concern-

over these developments, since

the inck of finances is the main cause of the delay in assisting Hunan,

POLAR FLIGHT.

What business-He is sort of BYRD EXPEDITION AT KING'S belongs to a firm.

Questioned next as to the source of these private monies, witness, stated that $2,000 was a loan re-dealer in imports and exports. Ile pajd by a man named Mone Leung, and the other half had been kepi in his wardrobe,

Did you lend the money to the Arm?--Yes.

On a promissory not?—Yes. For how long? counsel asked.

Who asked you to lend the He could not remember that it was for months and months asey ---A man whose surname is counsel Ruggesteik, but he couli say, the monies had been kept in the wardrobe for some time,

His stipulated shure of the capi- 'fal for the banking enterprise was to be $5,000, and this balance of $1,000 was paid dit, a few days after the account was opened in the Industrial and Commercial Bank,

Bofore the Kwong Cheung was opened, his private account in the Industrial and

Commercial

Bank was in his own name. He intended to separate the two ac counts for the sake of conveniener when the Kwong Choung Bank was started...

Mr. Jenkin put it to you thi Kwong Cheung Bank 13 a myth, a cloak for the purposes of defrauding the Wing On Bank,

Witness: It is a true Bank.

ilang..

Is that all know about him? Yes, only his surname.

How long have you know him?- Many years.

Has he repaid it?---Yes. Did you refund it to the Kwong Cheong!--No..

What did you do with it-Put 1 in my wardrobe.

Is it there now?-No.

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BAY.

Oslo, April 29.

The Byrd polar expedition, has arrived at King's Bay, Spitzbergen, in the ship Chantier, which carries two aeroplanes, with which it is

intended to fly to the Pole from a buse 400 miles away.-Rouler.

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paid to Tai Hang, and when ask- Mr. Jenkins-On August 13th, ed to reconcile the two statements, The day you tried to get the money witness suid it was so long ago.. from the Wing On Baak, you drew that he could not remember very a cheque for $1,0007-Yes, I'lent clearly,

to another person.

Whe?-calings tell you with

u the counterfuil of my cheque- book.

Would it make it ensier for

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MONEY LOAN ASSOCIATION.

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On August 18th, you drew a cheque for $200, asked Mr. Jenkin. Witness:Yes but without the

you to answer my questions if counterfoil I cannot say what

had

Your cheque-hook happened

to

it. I believe

In reply to further questions | -ounterfoils?—Yes, it would. 1 gave it to my wife to witness said that the paying-in Where is 2-I believe if I pay to a Money Loan Association. books for the Kwong Cheung undi carched the house I could find Did you ever refund it?-No. for his private account were boil.

The cheque is endorsed by isu kept in the same wardrobe with Was that $1,000, repaid-Yesu-man?-Possibly my wife gave other money.

arly in 1924.

to him to cash. What is the name of the Money Loun Asscelation Pool CZ0-

he $50,000

When were you going to do with bang is the heat; the Association

if you had got its no other name.

Did Fok know anything about || These cheques?—No,

OPERATION OF THE ACCOUNT.

In answer to further questions, į witner sail that the only amount

Have you refunded it to the Kwong Cheong?--No,

The put into the Kwong Cheung ac-rom the Wing On Company?--

count for his private purposes was $1,000. That sum was his own}

honey.

On August 7th, the day the.ac- count was opened you drew n bearer cheque for $200, naked Mr. Jenkin.

organise the bank.

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You are quite sure you would have lent that out. tool- night have done if there

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According to you, this private bank was to be an ordinary, honest, straightforward commercial ven- You opened the Kwong Cheong ture?-Yes. erunt on August 7th and up to

food interest.

Defendant:- Yes, I drew it to August 18th, had paid in $6,000

hand to my elder brother.

What for?-Por the purpose, of remitting it to Canton,

What for? To send back to the country for my family expenses.

Do you mean that? The first thing you do on opening the Kwong Cheong nécount, you draw money to send to your family in the coun- try?--It is true,

Mr. Jenkin explained that Au Kim-lul did not pay in the $1,000 of his own money until a later) date,

Did you put a note of the way that money was expended in the partnership book?It was not

necessary.

-Yes,

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And it was an ordinary, com- mm, every-day Chinese, partner. AHEAD OF THE MAIL wizard of ether is Mr. J. D. Chi- ship?--Yes.

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To lend to friends and buy wear-civil action 7-Because Fok had ai-has been received in Bombay of Ile can broadcast throughout ng apparel for your wife etc.--ways to go to Canton or Fatshan the death of Lieut. W. J. Vezey: Europe from his Yes,

Of that amount $5,000 was re- maid to you, you say?---Yes.

Where is it?-It is in my — Mr. Zeillya (interposing):—a that a fair question, my Lord??

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Was there no other competent co-partner. to carry on?-No.

Did you ask him to look after the action?--Yes,

Why did he refuse? I assume he did?—He said he had to go away to Canton.

He introduced Chan. Sam bé cause there was no other partner in Hongkong?-Yes.

Birchington. Royal Engineer, attached to the studio, yet only an owner of Chi- Bombay Sappers and Miners. It sholm's special receiver, custing appears that Lieut. Vezey was fly-29, can pick him up. ing in an aeroplane belonging to the Royal Air Force nt' Kohat which crashed resulting in his death.

Lieut. Vezey was a popular figure both at Poon and Bombay and was an all-round fiac sports man. He scored a century in

Wireless experts thus far have failed to catch Mr. Chisholm's clusive broadcast, which never howls and does not interfere with

the nearby North Foreland station: Mr. Chisholm is applying for pusimaster's licence to transmit

Who is Au Ying?My cousin. cricket on more than one occasion Private programmes and new ser- IIe subscribed $15,000 to the in Poona Gymkhana and Bombay Vices.

Gymkhana and took part in the

His Lordship: Let him give his Did you ever pay it back?-No. answer, Have you accounted to your co-

Mr. JenkinWhere is that partners for that money in any money now?I sent two or three capital of this company?—Yes. chape or form?--No.

thousand dollars to Canton for business,

FOR WIFE'S CLOTHES, Mr. JenkinOn the next day, August 8th, you drew a cheque for $80. What did you do with that?

Handed it to my wife.

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SHARES IN A PAWNSTIOP.

What business?—A pawnshop. Dil you buy shares?--Yes. And the rest? Some of it has

On your private affairs?-Yos. And the balance?-I handed it

What for?-For her to buy wear-been spent.

ing apparel.

Did that lp your banking busi- ness?It was only drawn. tem-to my wife. porarily, 1 would have repaid it. What do your co-partners think

Have you in fast replaced about thin?They don't know any

thing about it.

When Mr. Zeitlyn rose to query

No.

On the same day you drow n

He asserts that a foreign power Did Au Fu-man have any in- last Quadrangular Cricket Tour has offered a six figure sum for

nument in Bombay. He also as the patent rights, terest in the new bank?--No.

Is Fung Kau a relation of yours?sisted the European side in quad-

rangular cricket at Lahore.

No; a friend.

He

Is it, by any chance, a fancy was an excellent rugby player. name for the second defendant, His death occurred on Monday in

the vicinity of Kohat. Lam Fuk-chu ?-No.

The case proceeding.

JUDGE AND PRESS.

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Before resuming his examination this morning, Mr. Jenkin referred to reports ap- Dearing in the morning papers in

which it was stated, both in

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Cheque for $1,000. What was that whether or not another cheque black headline and in a paragraph Palermo route which is being. in- man tank has become a reality," for- lent it to my cousin, Lak mentioned by Mr. Jonkin, was which followed, that the witness augurated on Wednesday, Ho-wing.

bearer cheque, Sir Henry Gollan Tam Lay had "bolted. Counanl What, business is he doing 7-He commented: Most cheques in recalled what ho actually sald had just roturned from the Bank Hongkong are bearer cheques, with reference to this witness.

Cairo, 5th April Rolling like of Communications in Singapore. cannot get order cheques from the

ball, a German tourist, Dr. Mueil, The Chief Justice turning to Did he come from Singapore Bank needing money? He borrowed it

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