The defence held that on August!
11, and 16, 1927, the defendants tendered the plaintiff in Hankow the sum of Tls. 4,006.16 which he had refused to accept. On August 20 the defendants offered the _plaintif? $5,612.48 in notes of the Central Bank and the Bank of China, which was equivalent to the sum of Tis, 4,006.16 at the exchange of 71 as fixed by the regulations set out by Mr. T. V. Soong. The plaintiff refused to accept the notes and they had naw been brought into Court. On or about October 15, the defendants tendered $5,642.48 to "Messrs. Bally & Perry, solicitors for the plaintiff, but acceptance was refused ud the defendants then paid the amount In to H. M. Provincial Court Hankow. Upon the transference of this case to H. M. Supreme Court! at Shanghai the Provincial Court had returned the notes to the defendants. At the date of the fire the date when the loss was sessed the bank notes of three ban Central Bank, Bank of China, an Bank of Communications, were legal tender and currency in Hankow. the alternative the said bank notes were currency which had been imposed upon the community of Hankow by a power which the plaintiff was bound to obey and which the defendants could not resist.
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