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CONSPIRACY ALLEGED MONEY OBTAINED

BY CREDITOR,

DEBTOR DENIES INTEREST IN PROPERTY OR FIRMS,

An allegation that friends and relatives had conspired together to support the bankruptcy, with the object of defeating creditors, was made against a debtor by a cre- ditor in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday afternoon, before the Acting Chief Justico (Mr. Justice Wood).

The allegation was made when

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the public examination of Loung Ilau-man, No. 27, Pottinger Street, Wan resumed. It explained by the Official Receiver (Mr. E. L. Agasaiz) that the matter was adjourned because there was a suggestion that Messrs. Dencona might be interested in the case, but they were now no longer in- terested. Mr. Agassiz added that he had nothing further to ask debtor.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for debtor but did not question halm

Tung Pun-ti, a partner in the Tak Tal pawnshop, who said that ha WAS acreditor questioned debtor through his Lordship. Debtor denied that he borrowed money from Tung, but agreed that he overdrew his wages from time to time when employed at the pawnshop. He explained that he gave two promissory notes, one on October 27, 1927, for $1,000, and

BY TRICK.

SECOND APPEARANCE OF FORTUNE TELLERS.

After nearly à month's remand Yeung Chi-chu and Li Fang-leung. two Chinese fortune tellers, masla another appearance before Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, on a chargs of having obtained a sum of 83.500 from a widow, Chol Ngan, by means of a trick.

Mr. Hin-abing Lo appeared for the second defendant.

It will be remembered that the two defendants, poaing an fortune tellers and healers of all kinds of sickness, undertook to cure the com. plainant's son, and obtained $3.600 from her, in September 1928. They later handed complainant a packet,

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money purified by the Gods and naked her to keep it until they told her to open it. In December last year a nephew of the complainant returned from Vancouver and dis- covered the trick played on hig aunt. The packet when opened was found to contain brown paper,

Wong Hong-chiu, the nephew, in his evidence yesterday, and that on December 10 he paid his aunt a

it. While he was there the first defendant came in and conversed with her. Later they both went out, his mut taking the paper packet with her. Witness snatched the

A POWER SCHEME.

PLANT TO SUPPLY ALL KWANGTUNG.

If conditions along the Yung River come up to expectations of engineers certain plans now in the nebulous stage may NOON take tangible form, the ultimate realisa-

another, on January 11, 1929, for racket from his aunt and opened tion of which will mean the deve- Debtor said that he gave it and found it contained brown lopment of a huge hydro-alectric

$699. the notes to Tung.

be

paper instead of the money which she really

thought it contained, He then got the first defendant to write to the second defendant nak- ing him to come over. But they received a reply saying that it was come over. Witness

Had No Property. Debtor denied that when gave the notes to Tung he told him that he had some property.

Creditor: You said you had a business besides property and told | foo Inte to me that you borrowed the money then had the first defendant ar- In order to invest it in the Worsted. Loong wine distillery 7-No.

I till any you have shares in the Wo Loong and Sul Tai frms? No.

arrest.

Cross-Examination.

his

second defendant previous to the fie denied that his story The critar then stated that about the pucket had been trumped debtor's pelition has beer supp. He denied that he and his ported by his relatives and friends, friends had accused the first defen who had conspired together to de- dant of having squandered zent ereditors. One of them was aunt's mary. He admitted having debtor's unele and others were struck the first defendant on De- ermber 10, but that was when he found out that he had cheated his aunt. Previous the beating, the defemlant had mentioned the name of the second defendant as a party to the fraud. His aunt had never mentioned the second defendant to him.

power station of a capnelly suif- cient to take care of the needs of the whole of Kwangtung Provinco for some time to come, says the Canton fiazette. The Yung River! scheme, if surveys now in process prove practicabla, will mean to Kwangtung what Muscle Shoala and Niagara Falls mean to the American-electric power genera- tion at very low cost.

In reply to Mr. Lo, witness said Recently there were present in *You have a business in Hour-that he knew that his aunt had been Canton Mr. Paul Sykes, Canadian kong, paper shop and a wine staying with the Sest defendant be-Government Trade Commissioner, shan in Canton?-No.

tore. But he had never seen the

stationed at Hongkong. Mr. W.J. You still hold a share in your

Riddiford, Asalstant Trade Com- ancestral property 7. No,

missioner, Mr. W.. Poy, Secretary to Mr. Sykes, Mr. J.N. Jenssen, representing the Fraser Brace Engineering Corporation of Mon- treal, and Mr. Lam Wing Yan, all keenly interested in discussing this vast scheme with the Provincial Government. Several conferences were held with General Teng Yin- wah, the Commissioner of Recon- atruction, while an interview was also had with Chairman Chan Ming-shu, these two officials evinc- ing the greatest interest in plans that hold promise of tremendous Under cross-examination by Do- advantage to Kwangtung's diversi- | tective Sergeant Fitches, witnessfied industries requiring the u80 said that when he discovered the of power. trick the first defendant exclaimed "I deserve to die" and implicated

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"Debtor said that the "unele" was

a datunt relative.

The creditor:---My opinion is

that he should not be allowed to minaquerade as a bankrupt because he has business,

His Lordship:-Well, how in the Court to get hold of it?

Ofers to Pay. The creditor:-- I want to fell the Court that he is earning several tens of dollars as 'Els salary, and he has offered to pay $100 a year When this was rejected he con- sulted one of the gurtners of our firm and offered to pay $300 a year,

At this stage Mr. Butters ad- but now he refuses to pay anythingJourned further hearing of the case at all.

until February 9 and 19.

The creditor then said that he had no more questions to ask and his Lordship closed the examina- tion.

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the second defendant. That was The scheme calls for the devo before witness had given the defer-lopment of a hydro-electric power dant a beating.

SHANGHAI MENACE.

PLANS TO FOIL ARMED KIDNAPPERS.

Shanghai, Jan. 23.

plant in the Yung River, just above Yingtak. From cursory Inspec tions which engineers have minde it is estimated that the volume and force of waterflow at this. particular part of the river is auff- clent to generate sufflent elec- trical energy to supply all Kwang- fung's needs, not only for the present, but also for somo yeara to follow, allowing for normal In- dustrial expansion. The scheme la exactly similar to the numerous hydro-electric planta how working A comprehensivo scheme for all over America, which, putting it convert natural water

The transport Neuralia was to Settlement submitted to

through the use of appropriate leave Southampton on January 16 Municipal Council by the Commis- machinery. The cost of harness- on her second Far East voyage sioner of Police has received ita ing the water power in this carrying China reliefs. Her first approval, and will come Into fashion is no low that it is cheaper voyage, scheduled to be completed operation as soon as possible. to conduct the resultant electric by January 6, included the con-

Re- Summarised, the proposals on veyance of lat Queen's. Royal giment to Tientsis, and the trans-brace the introduction of a street telephone system, wireless cam- fer of the 2nd Royal Scots India. On her second voyage she is due to munication between headquarters leave Suez on January 28 with the and police patrol van, the ac- 1st Gloucestershire Regiment for quisition of additional patrol van

and motor-cycle combinations, the Singapore in relief of the 1st weich institution of special plain clothes sanrd of a hundred men provided Regiment to India. She

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more effective police protection briefly, Into electrical energy

against armed kidnapping in the power

the

power over hundreds of miles to distant centres than to operate the at usual type of power stationit the points of demand.

Mr. Jenssen left for Yingtak some days ago with a party of Chinese engineers and a special

for a few

the which ship takes on

is due to leave Kura-parties, and the possible provision by the Canton gendarmeric, He chi on February 28 for Shanghai of accommodation for a detachment expects to be away with the 2nd Northumberland Fusi-of a reserve unit in the Western weeks making his observations, and the hope is held that he will liers, arriving

March 18, and then district.

The engagement of a staff and be able to gather sufficient data: back to Bombay on March 25 with the 2nd Green Howards who ex- the initial cost of the adoption of for definite formulation of the

the proposals will requiro Tls, scheme when he returns, change Shanghai for Poonn. nar homeward and last voyage the 118,000, and the recurring annual Neuralia takes the 2nd Middlesex charge will be Tis. 50,000.-ONT Regiment from Bombay to Fort Own Correspondent. Sudan and the 2nd Royal Warwick- ahire Regiment from the Sudan to home. The Neuralla also carries home the last of the Far East de- tails on relief.

SHANGHAI "TRAGEDY.

INQUÈST ON LATE BARONESS DE PIDOLL

Shanghai, Jan. 23. At the inquent over the romains of the inte Baroness de Pidoll, held at the Belgian Consulate General, a vor dlet of suields by veronal poisoning was returned,-Røuler.

[Baroness Paulette de Pidoll, the

wife of Baron Charles de Pidoll, died at the Country Hospital, Shanghal, on

SERVICE SALARIÉS.

PETITION TO SECRETARY'

OF STATE.

It is understood that the Civil Servants of Hongkong are prepare ing a petition to be presented to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with a view to securing reconsideration of the exchange basis for conversion of sterling salaries into dollars.

It will be recalled that a fort- night ago the Secretary of State was credited with refusal to ap prove the compromise (half at 18. 6d. and half at current rato),

the morning the 22nd inst., after but subsequently he did approve.

necessary,

having been removed from Nagasaki He added that review might be Maru. on which ship she was taken ill, She had been on a visit to Japan. The Baron de Pidoll is a well known Luxemburg steel merchant, who has been in Chign some time representing the Luxemburg Steel cartel.]

No detalls of the Civil Servanta submissions are available, but it is understood that their general dir cumstances are analysed,

Th her

Apart from the principal treaty ports and cities along the const and some of the larger rivers, Chinn as, a whole is but it served in the way of electrical power. She possesses vast resources the natural water power of nuine four rivera, and if the Ying- tak scheme comes to fruition, it may well be that Kwangtung might lead the way to the general dove lopment of hydro-electric stations all over the country.

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