Charge Before Mixed Court Chinese, law prohibits the exportation' of rice outside China except with Government sanction. A case touching this was started at the Mixed Court before Mr. Hutchison, British Assessor, and Magistrate Li, when a rice chant of Wuhu appeared in answer to charges: the case was remanded for one week, the accused to be kept in custody in default, of $50,000 security, According to the charge, the accused, Liu Yoh-ming, on March 13. 1990, fraudulently induced the complainant, another Wuhu rice merchant, to guarantee to the Chinese Customs there that the accused was shipping a certain quantity of rice to Tientsin; that the rice was not sent to Tientsin. but was smuggled out of China contrary to law.
Mr. Haskell, in outlining the history of the case to the Court. said that both parties concerned were Wuhu rice merchants, the complainant being now in' that The accused had claimed he had 8,000 piculs of rice for si ment to Tientsin, but before- it could be shipped he was advised by tha Customs that he would have to put up a guarantee of $50,000 that the cereal would actually go to Tientsin. On representations of the accused, the complainant. whom Mr, Haskell represented, supplied the necessary guarantee. But instead of going to Tientsin. the rice found its way to Japan, The complainant was arrested by the Wuhu authorities, Mr. Haskell continued, and they told him he would have to pay the $50,000 bond or produce the accused within two weeks. Being a well known merchant at Wuhu, the complainant was allowed to look for the accused and followed him to Shanghai, where he found him in a lodging house and caused his arrest. Mr. Haskell asked for a remand of one week and bail at $50,000.
Mr. Ponson Chu, appearing for the accused. offered no objection to the remand, but said it would be impossible for his client to provide security for so largo a. sum. The remand was granted. the accused to remain in custody in default of $50,000 security.
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