We have received' from the Kiangsu Provincial Government a copy ofa very lengthy order whick thas been issued to the: Shanghai Provisional Court President, Dr. Ho Shih-tsun, by those authorities la regard to the suit breaght by Me. Hugh Middleton, a British subject, agauist the Bank of China for its failure to redeem notes issued by. its Mankow branch.
Mr. Middleton's action was to r9- cover the face value of $50,000 worth of notes issued by the Hankow branch of the bank and the mattoe was referred to Nanking for a ruling by the Judicial Yuan as to whether the action was within the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Provisionat Court' or whether it was an ade niinistrative issue, The order says that the Shanghai Provisional Court must in future not hear such actions on the ground that these matters are of an ade ministrative nature and, therefore, donot come within the Court Jurisdiction,
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