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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
INSURANCE CASE
Witness Denies Invoices Were Falsoly Made
Tam Sum-hong, employee of the Yu Ching Cheong Firm, Kobe, wan called to dve evidence in the action against China Underwriters Ltd.. which continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, yea- terday.
The Cheong Shing Hong, plaintiffs, claim
from defendants $30,996.23, being the rateable proportion of in- surance borne by them for the loss of goods, marine products and sen- foods, lost in a fire in January last
year.
LATE
PRAGUE
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March 15, 1939.
NEWS
City Death Leap
After injuring two of his fellow Kokls with a chopper, Li Yat, aged the 30, Jumped to his death from second door of the Chung Woo firm, In Bonham Strand East, this morning about 2 o'clock.
It is learned that L! woke up this Prague, Mar: 14.
of inde morning and went into the kitchen, -The Slovak declaration
from then started to attack the other em broadcast pendence is recognised in the follow and came out with a chopper. He
statement. Ing
ployees sleeping there. When some Prague this afternoon:
now of the men heard cries, they got up, "Slovakia has adopted course, and, following due delibera- and saw Li jump off the verandah. tion, had decided in favour of inde-The Infured men were removed to
and Slovaks the Queen Mary Hospital. pendence, Czechs
100
a
two
"We desire from the bottom of our will heart that the Slovak nation reap success in lia future independent existence, and hat the Slovak people will acquire economic conforming with the requirements of the nation.
conditions
Ichang Devastated
The defence is that 127 of tho have co-operated for 20 years, and 137 Items claimed are fraudulent, during this period collaboration was and benefis under the policy ure, certainly not to the disadvantage of
Over 100 casuallies in new Japan- therefore, forfeited.. It is further the Slovaks. Throughout this time, leged that the prices of some of the the Czecha, as well as the Blovaks, goods had been charged higher than were guided in their efforts by the ese air raids on Ichang. Central the will to benefit themselves and their part of wrecked city again devastated river craft. the market price,, and that
and planes atlacked
on Lukiob, weight and price beok had been al- mutual state
"To-day The Federal bond between Raids also carried out tered..
to Bian and Paochi. Mr. Eldon Folter, C., and Mr. Boliemia and Slovakia ceases H. C. Macnamara, appear for plain-exist, and each of us will pursue an tiff Arm on the instructions of Mr. Individual existence.
this occasion, when E. Davidson. of Hastings and Co. Defendants are represented by the brotherly nations take leave of each Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr., and other, we can truthfully assert that Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, instructed by the Czecli people have never enter- Mr. O. E. C. Marion, of Deacons.tained feeling of enmity for the
Examined in chief by Mr. Mac- Slovaks. namora, Tam said yesterday that he was lost in Hongkong in December, 1937. He had come to the Colony on this occasion in reply to a cable from plaintiffs in connection with this claim. His job in Kob was to prepare advice notes and invoices, and he identified a number of these made out by him and a set whleh had been made out by other em ployees of his firm. Witness said to book the first procedure was space for freight to Hongkong and then, knowing the sailings of steam- ers in advance, he could prepare the
"In our co-operation with the advice sometimes a month ahead. Slovak independent State we shall
required such Invoices
additional items entered as labour, Insurance,
retain friendly recollections, realising Union payments commission, stor- us we do, that political frontiers age, towing, freight, etc. and these cannot, separate the hearts of people were sometimes not made up until, who have been together for so many a month
after the sailing of the years, Trans-Ocean. steamer. He denied that any false Invoices had been inade. A number of corrections of errors had been sent and the information on these was obtained from a godown book.
Other Duties
"The Czech State is now faced with a number of problems, which differ considerably from former tasks. We are beginning a new epoch in our national life, and it is necessary that we take up the work of leadership with a.spirit of unity, discipline, and prudence:
War In 10 Days, Says U.S.
Washington, Mar. 14. The virtual dissolution of Czecho- Slovakia has caused a painful im- pression here, declared the newspaper "Star", which adds:
"The new crisis is regarded as the forerunner of a more serious one before the end of the month. Reports from American diplomats in Central
Cross-examined by Mr. D'Almeda, witness said, his solo job was as stat- ed, but he later agreed that in 1937 he travelled frequently to Hongkong to keep the plaintiffs informed of; currency control and import restric- tions then initiated by the Japanese Government. He agreed that he transmitted messages to Japan teli- Europe. Indicate that the German and Ing them what kind of goods could Italian Governments are preparing best be marketed, but this was for a real show-down. Many warn
nerely. Incidental:
the Administration that trouble is Witness admitted that he was an likely to start within ten days" important member of the firm..
Odial circles in Washington view Questioned on invoices and advice to-day's developments as unnislak- notes made out about the dates he able evidence of the intention of the to secure tho was in Hongkong in 1937, witness Tollitarian Slates said he could not remember when obealace of the remaining small he actually made them. They may democracies in the coming_struggla have been two or three weeks or with France and Britain-Reuter. month from the time of the actual arrival of the goods in Hongkong. He agreed that the invoices were no concern of plaintiffs as they did not disburse the extra charges con tained thereon, but he did not know why they were sent to Hongtong.
Under pressure, witness said it was his chief job to make out the involves and advices, but he did not know why they were sent to Hong- kong. It was in the discretion of the buyer in Japan as to whether they should be sent a month in ad- vance of the goods, or later.
Counsel: I am suggesting that if these invoices were genuine at all, within a short they would be sent time of the ship's departure?
Witness: Sometimes I was away, and the fokis would not make them out unless I specially asked them to as a favour, since it was my job.
Asked as to the dates on several letters he wrote correcting: invoices and advices, witness sald sometimes he used tho Chinese and sometimes the Western calendar, and sometimes he wrote the date when, the Tetier was written and sometimes the date of the subject matter under discus
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