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BLUE BIRD OIL COMPANIES.

FRANCIS LORANG · CHARGED AT THE GUILDHALL.

REMAND ORDERED.

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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1930.

BRITAIN'S SEA POWER REDUCED.

WARNING BY AUSTRALIAN CHIEF OF STAFF.

Sydney, July 24.

A warning that recent events

BIG FORTUNE SHARED.

ESTATE OF LATE LORD ASHTON NOW PROVED.

have tended to reduce British sea|BUSINESS. TO GO ON. power below the safety minimum, is given in the annual report of

Letters of administration have

Sir Henry Chauvel, the Chief of been granted in respect to the the General Staff, Australian Forces.

Francis Lorang, the financier, and director of the Blue Bird group of oll companies, appeared at the London Guildhall Police Court.

While drawing attention to Aus- He left London in May 1929, andtralia's dangerous position in wartime, Sir H. Chauvel, suggests lived in Luxembourg, his native that her contribution to Imperial country, for many months.

naval defence should be revised in she can accordance with what afford.-Reuter.

Mr. Clayton (for the Public Pro secutor) said that Lorang was in Court as the result of extradition England proceedings between

and France. A warrant was grant- ed in September last in reference to the Blue Bird Petrol Company. The charges in relation to this company were making a false statement on a statutory report and fraudulent conversion of four sums amounting to £165,000.

The second company concerned the Blue Bird Holdings, Limited, and the charge in this res- peet was fraudulent conversion of

was

£8.000.

In the case of Blue Bird Oil Im- porters, Limited, there was a charge of fraudulently converting £93,421, and a similar charge re- lating to £52,000 in connexion with the Blue Bird Petrol (Foreign), Limited.

There was another company called Blue Bird Motor, 1924, he said, but there was no charge in rospect of that. At the same time it was bound to be mentioned be-

cause the false atatement alleged to have been made in connexion with the Blue Bird Petrol Company was that payments amounting to £80,000 were made to the motor company.

Lorang was managing director of the four companies, and had sole control of the financial side. The alleged conversion was that money was paid into the companies' ac- count, and very shortly afterwards it went into Lorang's account.

estate of the late Lord Ashton, the Lancashire Industrial magnate and multimillionaire, who died on May 27, at the age of 87, leaving no will.

The estate has been proved at Somerset House at £9,500,000.

It is believed that there is no precedent for a man to amass so large a fortune and die intestate.

Japan's Attitude,

Tokyo, July 24. Of the £9,500,000, approximate- The London Naval Treaty is ly £9,800,000 will go in death now in the hands of the Privy duties to Mr. Snowdon... The re Council.

mainder of the estate will be divid- Following Mr. Hamaguchi's visited equally between Lady Ashton to Hayama this morning, formally (the widow) and Lord Ashton's to place the treaty before the Emonly daughter, Lady Peel. peror for his approval, the Em-

The two administrators, recent- Tokyo this afternoon and asked in the Probate Court, peror's ́aide-de-camp journeyed to

ly appointed by Mr. Justice Hill the Privy Council to deliberate and Horace Evelyn Sier, of Viney,

the treaty. Returning advise on

are Mr.

to Tokyo, Mr. Hamaguchi con- Price and Goodyear and Sir Wil ferred with Baron Kuratom, the liam Plender, of Deloitte. Plend- President of the Privy Council,er, Griffiths and Co. They who promised early action.

both chartered accountants.

It is authoritatively expected that ratification will take place before September.--Reuter.

THE C.E.R. DISPUTE..

MOSCOW CONFERENCE AT DEADLOCK.

Aro

Lord Ashton, in commercial; circles, was regarded as an extra- ordinarily clever man and as pos- sessing one of the best business. brains in the country. Among the 4,000 employees of the great line- leum manufacturing business be built up, and in other directions in Lancaster, fears have been ex- pressed that his death might re- sult in important changes.

the Conference

The business is to go on. It' Mukden, July 24.

will be continued on the lines The Manchurian Provincial Government has been informed by which have raised it to its pre- its delegate, General Mo Teh-hui, sent prosperity. attending the Sino-Soviet Confer-) ence in Moscow concerning the settlement of the C.E.R. dispute, insisted that that a deadlock has occurred con- should confine its discussions to sequent on the Soviet's determina- aTTairs of the C.E.R. only. tion to base the discussion on the General Mo added that the Habarovsk Memorandum, in Soviet delegates have deliberately which the Manchurian delegate, brought about a deadlock in view Mr. Tsai Yung-sheng, made con- of the military crisis facing the cessions to the Soviet Government Nanking Government. The Soviet which were subsequently re- hope for a change of Government All the four companies were inpudiated by the Nanking Govern-in China, when the new regime liquidation, he said, and the liquida- ment.

may adopt a conservative foreign tor would tell the Court" that the total indebtedness by Lorang to these companies was something sitting on July 20th and that he fixed. over £500,000. Lorang Was а bankrupt. He was adjudicated about June last, and left England some time in May last.

Lorang's Reply. Inspector Giles said that he at- tended at Boulogne Prison and there saw Lorang. After being Tues. 29th July at noon, cautioned Lorang said, “Whatever Wed. 6th Aug at 3 p.m, has happened it was done with the Fri. 15th Aug at 3 pm, consent of the board, especially Mr. Plejus and Mr. Trye. Far from Sun. 27th July at 10 a.m. misappropriating any

money I Tues. 19th Aug at 7am.maintain that the companies owe me money." When charged in Tues. 5th Aug at 7 a.m. London he said, "The moneys that have been spent were done with the directors' consent."

General Mo Teh-hui stafes that policy. General Mo says that no the Moscow conference had one further meeting has yet been

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Mr. Harry Myers, for the de- fence, said that Lorang was very anxious, as soon as he could, to put his answer to the case before #

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"am told," he said, "that the evidence for the prosecution will not last more than four or five days. You have heard what Lorang says -it is a matter of account-and the defence will be put forward at the proper place."

Alderman Jenks formally re- manded Lorang.

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