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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

£100 JEWEL LOSS CLAIM,

AMAZING STORY BY DIAMOND DEALER.

JUDGES' HORROR AT LETTER.

London, Sept. 15.

A story of an alleged faked jewellery loss was told at the City of London Court yesterday, when Messrs. L. Hill and Sons diamond brokers, of Holborn-via- duct, sued Mr. Cecil Harley of Bath House, Holborn, for £22 for goods supplied.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927.

RESULTS OF GENEVA

CONFERENCE,

ITS EFFECTS CLOSELY CONSIDERED.

MEETING JUSTIFIED.

The resolutions passed by the Economic Conference at Geneva concerning the causes of economic States and the removal of these depression in most European causes constitute a victory for the beleve in the necessity and pos evolutionists, ie, for all those who sibility of all civilized countries Mr. Harley, who admitted the certain economic spheres witho it systemintically co-operating in claim and set up a counterclaim destroying the sovereignty of the for £15 155. for solicitors' costs, individual States, writes one who said when he saw that the famous took part in it, in an exchange. Golden Dawn diamond was to be It is highly significant that these sold at Christie's he approached resolutions wore adopted by a Messrs. Hill, and a day or

gathering which, in composition, later they gave him a yellow dia-could scarcely have been more mond, which they said was the

heterogeneous, not to say an- Golden Dawn stone they had tagonistic; it represented capita- obtained frem Christie's and that lism and bolshevism, protection a cash offer of £4,500 would pro- and free trade, employers and em- bably buy it...

Floyeds, commerce, and agriculture.

two

manufacture

Anyone acquainted with the op- posing interests existing even within the various groups them- selves will appreciate, the work tions in harmonizing, to such a achieved by the League of "Na- degree, all these conflicting in- terests. Those who had an on- portunity of observing how, de-

He was unable to sell it to any of his customere and afterwards found that the stone was not the Golden Dawn. Measrs... Hill'a solicitors then wrote him stating that the situation arose from a coincidence that a stone called the Golden Diamond was in the mar ket at the same time as the Golden Dawn was being sold, His counterclaim was fol solicitor's costs owing to the misspite the protectionist policy of their Government, the French do- take.

légates did all in their power to [The Golden Dawn diamon prevent the Conference from tom- weighing 614 carats; was sold at ing to griod in consequence of Christie's last December for their country's attitude must 840 84.950, the Aga Khan being the therein a striking practical 'ex- purchaser.]

ample of the intense desire felt: In cross-examination by Mr. everywhere to-day for the pre- Valetta, Mr. Harley admitted writ-servation of international soli ing the following letter to Messrs. darity. It is greatly to the credit II:

of the League that it has, by means of the Economic Confer- once, confirmed this solidarity and the necessity for international

You will be glad to learn that the parcel of rings is intact, and will be handed back to you-on proof being received by me of co-operation. complete withdrawal of the claim; Supported by the authority of made by you on Lloyd's in re-this assembly, the idea of co- spect of the diamond bracelets opération and of a general balang- alleged to have been lost by you.ing of international economic in- together with a payment to mcterests will gain ground in all of the sum of £100, being the re- countries and will promote and ward offered by the assesporg..

accelerate the economic develop- may be compounding a felony, ment" of the world for the benefit but I think the underwriters will of the great masses of mankind. not take action.

Mr. Harley said that letter ro- ferred to a loss alleged to have been sustained by Mosars. Hill

Time Needed.

This will, of course, take time.

which he had reason to believe Big States are still dominated by was a bogus claim on the under-the notion that their national writers.

£100 Sticking Out.

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security requires them to be Mr. Valetta: How do you come economically independent of the to introduce the matter

notion of the rest of the world-e bracelets into the same letter anwhich, in its present exaggerated the parcel of rings which you form. conduces all the more and say were intact? What were you all the more certainly to financial trying to do?

ruin inasmuch as it is only a Judge Shewell Cooper: Trying tradition of a defunct historic to get £100 apparently.

era. But the recognition of the Mr. Valetta: By blackmail.

fact that international competi- Ition, more particularly as prae- tised in Europe, is to the detriment of all, will make itself more and more felt and will gradually en- Mr. Harley: This £100 I' lates to a claim made some three

lighten everywhere that public. months earlier by Hill and Song opinion from which the Geneva upon the insurance company. I assembly expects, above all, saw an advertisement in a paper tic economic policy of many go change in the super-individualis- offering £100 reward for informa-

and parliaments. It tion about four bracelets lost in vernments the tube, through Tylers the was no mere empty phrase, spoken without conviction, which fell assessors. Suspecting from the

President description whose bracelets they of the Conference, M. Theunis,

from the lips of the wore I called upon Hilla at once because I was satisfied that the when he said: "After the ter- loss arose out of an academic rible breakdown of Europe, which discussion

made itself felt throughout the regarding robbery which I had had a short time be world, a restoration of the old fore with the two brothers Hill well-being can be brought about, their office over a cup of tea. only as the outcome of common They had said how easy it was effort. The day will come in to claim on the insurance com- which the results of our laboura will materialize in the form of pany if one wished to.

greater human happiness."

"I said to them," continued Mr.

The Conference has left it to Harley, "You have done a most dreadful thing. You have carried the League to carry out a num- put what you said could easily ber of technical tasks connected with the world's economy. be done. They said Harley, we have had no loss, and I said Among these is the unification of you say that there is nothing more tariff nomenclature, the simpl

fieation and, standardization of to be said.

customs tariffs whose complica- "Next night Messrs. Hill #tions are at present legion; the rived and stayed until the early League has also been requested to hours of the morning pleading with me not to do anything in the watch the development of the in- ternational industrial agreement matter. They said their father was dying. I said I am a busi- movement, to collect statistics in to industry ete. The regard ness man, there is £100 stickingcarrying out of these measures, out. Whether I have it from yoù or from the assessora is a matter calculated as they are to facilitate international economic life, would,

of indifference to me, but niyin itself, justify the holding of advice is get that jewellery r the conference. In the Intereff3 turned, cancel the claim, and pay me the £100 for the abandonment of the worlds' peace and of the of the claim."

Blackmail.

Mr. Valetta: Then it comes t

this. You were blckmailing

them for £100 on your prese.it

general progress of civilization, it

It, however, to be hoped that the work of Geneva will be developed and completed in the sense indica ted by M. Theunis.

statement in the witness box, unsatisfactory story concerning You know they had forward a the letter. false claim?

Mr. Harley: Yes.

"I do not want to use language unduly strong," added the judge, Mr. Henry Hill, in evidence, but I must say that the letter denied that he at any time ar-fills me with horror and disgust, ranged to pay the solicitors' coste and I do not feel disposed to be- incurred by Mr. Harley in con- lleve a man who can write a lettur nexion with the mistake with re- of that description, as opposed gard to the Golden Dawn. one whom I believe to be a per- Judge Showell Cooper said his fectly honest diamond merchant." view was that Mr. Henry Hill was Judgment was given for Mesera. far more worthy of credence than Hill and Sons. on the claim and Mr. Harley, who had given a very counterclaim with costs.

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