The Archive · 1930

said Judge M.D. Purdy in the

Court for China on March when he reserved judgment in is the form in which the said edict fo my Throne" WALFOUF This] price. When he went down later he found that two of the men had two cases in which an American had been tampered with meaning disappeared. Catehing hold of the! flat my fourth son succeed to my remaining one, Mr. Gensburger naval offer and Filipino sought divorce.

Throne." ulled him into the house and 'The grounds for divorce li both'

Tam, ete, awaited the arrival of the police. cases were of desertion without} "ANorHEn CxtINese ConnesPonDENt, This man made various statements, cause. In the first, Clarence Le-Shanghai, Feb, 28, 1990. and, when he was taken to the maine Waters, naval officer, stated Avenue Joffre police station later, that he married Julia Mirian in he made a further statement, The May, 1919, in New York and, after French police arrested four other living together for some time, she Ant the 104 Silk Filatures, which {men and, when Mr. disappeared. Questioned by ' the ¢loted down at the end of January 'went-to the police station on Mon-Judge, he said that he loft his wife in observance of the China New|day, he met Chief - Det-Insps nonth after their marriage as he Year, have now resumed. With the Quayle, who confirmed certain had to go back to his ship and when majority of these filatures the statements which had been made. he returned he lived with her in period: of vacation was extended That evening, complainant again his mother-in-law's home. He: was owing to trade depression, went to the police star then sent to different naval sta-one King Zeng-ying and, as a result tions, and he did not receive any, Recentty an order was issued by of what this man told him, he reply from her by letter though he the Administrative Yuan for the instructed counsel to take proceed: Sent correspondence. Returning to! Suppression of all Min Hsin Chu ings against Mr. Shibbeth.

New York again he found no trace (non-government post offices) Mr. Harris then dealt with the of her. Dr. Sellet appeared for the groind that. their existence motives and mentioned certain busi-the absent respondent, and Mr. violates China's postal unit ess transactions between Mr.

N._E. Lorton for petitioner. Upon receipt of the order, the Gensburger and Edward H. Shib-Francisco Gutierrez Saenz, a Hein Chu in the various provinces beth and Meyer Shibbeth, and the Filipino law student, told the judge submitted a. petition to the Yuan, Subsequent troubles at the Decem-in the next case that he married asking that the order should ° be ber settlement of the Shanghai Lillian Ollie an American, reminded and suggesting that a Stock Exchange, in which the pres-1914, in New Orleans. censorship of all the letters carried ent defendant' was declared _a Petitioner in reply to the judge by the Min Hsin Chu be conducted defaulter due to the heavy drop in said that he was the son of a 50 as. to prevent anti-government Ewos. Defendant ultimately _re-wealthy merchant and studied Literature from being circulated. signed from the Stock Exchange, law in New Orleans where be met This suggestion has been rejected said counsel, and Moyer Shibbeth respondent in his. school. After by the Administrative Yuan, which was expelled, largely, he said, on: living together for nearly two has issued a further order for the Taccount of a'speech by Mr. Gens-years he said he was going to the Suppression of Min Hein Chu within burger. Mr. Harris then mentioned East to which respondent objected, the shortest possible period. hat he would call King Zeng-ying, though married. Petitioner. thea! stiled for the Philippines and latee wrote a number of letters to respondent, who did not reply.

Mr. Fleming for the petitioner said that it was obvious that respondent had no wish to live with him whereupon Judge Purdy made the remarked quoted above. Mr. Pleming in reply said that petition: er wanted to fix a home for respondent in the East. Judge Purdy: "Did that naval officer in the last ease also inlend to fix a home for his. wife away - from America? No, I do doubt if I shall The Chinese authorities promised that no agents would examine the books of Chinese merchants in the Settlement and no compulsion would, be used to force people to purchase revenue stamps and attach them to their documents, which may be Admitted into courts as evidence though they may be unstamped.

In the ease under review the accused persons were charged under a private criminal prosecution institut ed by the Stamp Tax Bureau with failing to observe the regulations. grant a decree nisi."

Tt would seem that the Chinese authorities have gone back on thole word but the more important point at issue is whether the Stamp Tax

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