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Shanghai, Aug. 20. was inside the wall it never attract-Before F. 8. A. Bouyer, Esq., ed the attention of foreigners, and Assistant Judge. in the course of time came to be Horatio Robertson v. Charles Gil-forgotten. Until the archives have bert Davies and Gerald Kingsmill. been searched it seems probable The plaintiff's claim against the that the history of this particndefendant C. G. Davies, the regisble that the history of this particutered owner, together with one lar slab will remain part of the Charles W. Thomas, of B.C. lot No. dim and distant past; at any rate, 5365, the beneficiary owner thereof the French authorities have not being one Yeh Vee-sung, is for spe-yet been able to find any one who elfic performance by the said defen-is able to give an account of it. dant of an agreement for mortgage The stone has now a temporary made in December 1906 between the resting place in the French Conces-plaintiff and the said Yeh Vee-sung sion. of which the said defendant was a Tt is hardly necessary to mention that Montauban was the Gen- to party, whereby the plaintiff agreed lend and did thereafter on eral who commanded the French January 1, 1907, lend £5,000 sterling army in China in 18860, and won for himself the title of Duc de Palikao. to the said Yen Vee-sung, and whereby as security for the said loan the
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