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THE MORTGAGE CASE.

ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL.

FRIDAY,

MAY 20, 1927.

CHIANG DISPLEASES

SHANGHAI.

(Continued from Page 1.)

At yesterday afternoon's hear- ing of the mortgage case, before losses at the handa of the Chin- the acting Chief Justice, Mr. J. [çse Southern forces. It was also R. Wood, questions were put to dontrary to the tonour of the ad- Mr. E. Davidson, of Messrs.visory committee's recommenda- Hastings, Dennys, and Bowley, ations. witness for the defence, with rdgard to the honesty of T. L Sung, in the part he played in events leading up to the mortgage. The plaintiffs, Lo Kwong-lam, and Lo Kwong-hin asked for a $400,000 mortgage on Hongkong property to be set aside on the grounds of infancy. Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C.. with Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellett is far, the plaintiffs, and the defence is in the hands of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. G. G. N. Tinson.

Replying to Mr. Jenkin witness said he had no reason to doubt the information which Sung gave him with regard to the ages of the plaintiffs, and he had never de-. teeted Sung guilty in suppressing material facts.

No Reduction of Forces. Replying to Sir Walter de Freeee, Sir L. Worthington Evans said that the slutation in China was not yet sufficiently stabla to enable a decision to be taken with regard to the reduction of the strength of the Shanghai Defence Corps.

The question of transferring sections of the force to healthier adjacent stations in the coming summer had not been overlooked. ----Router.

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21 YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH" FILES.

The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended May 19th, 1906,

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The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 2s. 1.7/10d.

1.

The Corinthian Yacht Club clos-" ed its racing, sonson with a cruise

Port Seaton. The following gentlemen participated: Messrs. Popper, Gibson, Melver, E. M. Hazeland, McKirdy, Kynoch, Me. Melville, Crake, Corquedale.

Hands, and B. Witchell.

A court of Enquiry was held at the Harbour Office before the Hon.. Captain L. A. W. Barnes-Lawrence, to determine the circumstances at tending the wrecking of 8.8. Chu- Re-kong."off Breaker Point.

Entry to Shanghai. The Commander of the 65th giment of the 22nd Division of the Nationalist Army last Friday received telegraphic orders from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek stating that, according to a detective re- port, over 1,000 plain clothes Fengtien soldiers, carrying pistols, have entered Shanghai to create,

Mr. Petter questioned witness with regard to what Sung did for his commission of $32,000, in helping the brothers to obtain their share, and also with regard to Leung Wing-chung, who was brought into the deal by Sung on a commission of five per cent. a disturbance.

Witness said he thought the commission rather high, but It could not be called dishonest if the other people knew. He said he could not give an opinion at the moment, when asked by Mr. Potter whether in fact Sung obtained for the brothers nothing more than they were entitled to under the trust. He added that Sang "showed them the ropes" and did a good deal of work before the commencement of the action.

Assistance Denied.

This morning, Mr. Potter and his Lordship would remember that a good deal had been made, not improperly perhaps, with regard to Lo Kwong-lam's reticience about his property in Macao, and how after a tiffin adjournment he returned and gave particulars. Also how it had been stated that during that adjournment he bad been to a solicitor's office with his brother where the whole matter was gone into.

Mr. Strellett was prepared to go into the witness box and say that they did go to the office, and

anybody nt Suggestion. that Messrs. Brutton's office assisted either Lam or Bin.

Mr. Jenkin: I did not suggest that anybody did.

In consequence of this, the Commander has detailed soldiers to co-operate with the constables of the Woosung and Shanghai Constabulary and the Nantao Peace Maintenance Corps to search for auspicious-looking per song on the various streets and at the wharves in Chinese terri- tory, says the Simianpao,

MINISTER'S VISIT.

Cives Rise to Rumours, Peking, May 13. There are various speculations in regard to the object of the visit to Shanghai of Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister in Peking.

Police constable A. R. Owen- Williams was killed by falling from an open window in the Theatre Royal into Wardley Street.

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A site was selected for a mar- ket at Quarry Bay,

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Sir. Ernest Satow informed the Walwapu that Great Britain would consent to the retrocession of Weihaiwei to China under certain conditions.

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Mr. Raphel E. Bellilios was ad- mitted to practise at the Hongkong Bar.

Mr. Edward Osborne and Mr. E. A. Hewett were sworn in as Mem- bers of the Legislative Council.

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Mr. J. R. Wood was appointed a Member of the Squatters' Board, vice Mr. F. J. Badely.

Some say that the object is not only to inspect the actual conditions in various parts of the Yangtze Valley including Shanghai and

Mr. J. E. Menagh was appointed Nanking, but also to have an inter- view with the British Consul- Chief Storekeeper in connexion General at Shanghal, the Com-with the Kewiocn-Canton Railway mander-in-Chief of the British (British Section). Asiatic Squadron, Major-General Duncan, and influential business- men in order to confer about mensures to be taken for the pre- sent situation.

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Mrs. C. J. Bateman. Head Mas- tress of Belilios Public School, was the recipient of several pre- sentations on her departure for Home on retirement.

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That was how they eventually trip, besides. the foregoing object, the Nanking Tel. Kowloon No. 8.

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The British Minister, accom- Mr. Potter replied he thought it was only fair to take the point,panied by an official interpreter, because it had left that impregand another official, will leave here for Tientsin on Monday, thence Ision on his mind, and perhaps on This Lordship's also, that the partithe party will sall directly for culars had not been arrived at by Shanghai on the following day on

a British gunboat. the two witnesses themselves.

His Lordship remarked that that stood that the British Minister wil: ospital.

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Mr. Potter I only wanted to dispel that impression, but Mr.) Strellett is prepared to go into the witness box.

Mr. Jenkin:That declaration of non-assistance" is confined to persons in Mesars. Brutton's office, of course.

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London, May 14. A Shanghai, Cispatch to the Sunday Exprous says that Messrs. Mr. Jenkin then proceeded Eugene Chen and Michael Borodin deliver his concluding address. are reported to have aeroplanes in He said that in view of the short readiness for an instant flight to time that had expired since he Russia in the event of the arrival opened the case on behalf of thein Hankow of Northern troops. defendants, and in view of the A Hankow correspondent also fact that it was obvious to him says that Madame Sun Yet-sen, that is Lordship had at least who has been virtually a prisoner to make a quick flight from China

Some weeks ago he left the. appreciated to the full every sub-in Hankow since her brother, T. V. mission which he (Mr. Jenkin) had Soong, went to Shanghai, has Chinese city at Hankow and enter- laid before him, good, bad, or in- deserted the Nationalist cause of a hospital in the French con- different, it seemed to him that and is making desperate efforts ression, not as a patent but as a having reached the ninth day of to obtain her freedom and take semi-refugee. His airplane was long and fatiguing case, he would flight down the Yangtze before the kept within a few hundred feet at all times and a pilot and mechanj- serve no really, good purpose by fighting begins. again covering the ground, which

cian kept it in good order and con- he went over In his opening

stant readiness. address.

Borodin has had an aeroplane in readiness for a flight toward the trans-Siberian railway fr He therefore proposed to con- months. He has long felt the day clude briefly, and he would re- might, coine when it would be his sent with heartfelt necessary for his personal safety thanks for the patience with which

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His Lordship had listened to what he had had to say, and to. the ovidence which he had calied.

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With reference to Madame Sun

it has been repeatedly stated that she was tired of things in Hankow and cager to get out of political life entirely. She is only 25 years of ago and said not to be vitally concerned about govern- The terms for the relief whichment affairs. She is considered a the plaintiffs were seeking in the very attractive young woman in case under consideration, should China. Some say she desires to be that they make good their quota travel abroad for a while. of the money which was advanced, with Interest which was claimed.

Question of Prejudice. Dealing with the question of prejudice, Mr. Jenkin said that assuming for the purposes of Hip Lordship remarked that if argument the contract was wholly he made that order, and the void, he would submit that accord- plaintiffs were

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Mr. Chen's place in the scheme released from of things has always been tenta-

Chinese knows only a few words of

the language, having been educat ed abroad, mainly in England.

ing to the evidence, a court which 2/6ths. of the mortgage, that did tive. He has a fluent command of was considering as to whether it not restore the defendant to his English and although racially could refuse relief to an infant proper position because at present, in either of the two circumstances he could sell the property. If put before His Lordship in the 2/6ths. were withdrawn from the present case, elther because the contract the security would be re- infant has been guilty of fraud, or duced to an undivided 2/3rds. because the infant had acquired Mr. Jenkin replied that it could money for the purpose of acquir-be ao because they wanted security ing property which was mortgaged, for that 2/3rds,

When the Nanking Government condemned the Hankow leaders Chen's name was omitted. This was taken by many to be an invita tion to him to" como to Nanking. Other anid it was because Chen Was not considered of great im- portance in the Nationalist move- ment except as a mouthpiece.

T. V. Soong, Madame Sun Yat- son's brother, formerly Financo minister of the Nationalist Govern ment in the French concession In Shanghal,

and had adopted that property, His Lordship said the security. then the court would not even con-would be reduced out of all pro sider whether or not the contract portion. Whe was going to buy into which he entered and raised an undivided share, he asked?

M. Jonkin continued that ho money was to his prejudice or not. He submitted that if fraud was would put it to His Lordship as a established, then the plaintiffe matter of fact that he could not could be put upon terms, by plac-find the contract was prejudical toment, is living in virtual retire- ing the mortgagors in the position the boneft of the plaintiffs. they were before the mortgage. The case is proceeding.

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