Before Mr, D'Hondt (Bel sesser), Mr. Vizenzinovich (Spani Assessor) and Magistrate Sung at the Mixed Court on Monday, the Tia, 100,310 diamond ense was continued, The claim of plaintiffs, who are of Belgian nationality, is against the Woo Shing Hong.
Mr. H. D, Rodger appeared for plaintiffs; Mr. J. M. "Taveres for defendant hong and Pan Shing-hien; and Mr. A, M. Preston for another defendant, Pan Kyoeh-hsin, who is the compradore of the Shanghat Municipal Council.
Monday's proceedings were occupied with the hearing of an a plication by Mr. Tavares, which supported by Mr! Preston, that the guarantee bond executed' by Leo Lamwa of the Yuen Chang Factory as security for the defendants be cancelled and that Pan Shing-hich be allowed to sign a bond on his guarantors wished to withdraw their guarantee bond; that the has been pending for over a year and that the defendants were not Jurisdiction of id that his client the compradore of the Municipal Council, and that as such was not Mkely to Mr. H. D. Rodger, representing the plaintiff, stated that only the evidence of the plaintiff had been heard and that the bond could not properly be withdrawn until the case was fished and judgment given. Mr. Rodger further a that Pan Kyoch-hsin claimed to be 8 Portuguese, but that this point has not been decided by the Court, and that if the bond were cancelled defendant might refuse to come to the Court, and the Court may have no power to enforce any order that was made against him. Mr. Rodger also stated that the defendant has received over Tls. 100,000 worth of diamonds from the plaintiff, and had then gone into bankruptcy, and that it was nothing more or less than gigantic swindle.
Mr. Tavares objected and said that no fraud had been proved, Mr. Rodger further stated that although Mr. Tavares was apparent ly asking on behalf of the guarantors that the bond be cancelled, the guarantors apparently had ' not sufficient interest in this case to pear in Court and that there wai no counsel in the Court to represent the guaranto After a lengthy argument counsel for the plaintiff the application was denied by the Court, Tue editor and manager of a publication company at 67 North Shansi "Road, were before the Mixed Court on Friday last on! charges of issuing and distributing inflammatory literature, tional Humiliation Cartoon". The booklet includes "The Song of Ever-son," "The Song of Patrotism™ and "Cross the Boundary." Det. Sgt. Tingler, who made the seize lures gave evidence, and the case wag remanded.
A Chinese claiming to be a doctor was sentenced to three years' im. prisonment for kidnapping a small boy. Accused was arrested on the previous day by a boatman who, noticing the boy crying, questioned jeccused. Not! receiving a satis factory reply, the boatman handed accused over to the nearest police-Iman. Accused denied the charge, but the 'Court decided to believe' the version of @ number' of witnesses for the prosecution, including the small boy and the 'béatinan.
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