Though the texture of the paper was only fair aod the ink used of 8 poor colour, the spelling of the] word "Corporation" with two "p's"! was too much to overlook, and Mr.
RR. Mackean, accountant of the National City Bank of New York, testified at the Provisional Court fon Monday that 41% counterfeit notes of $5 denomination, purporting to have been issued by the International Banking Corporation, seized in a police raid last week at 200 Rue clu Consular were as rank forgeries as he had ever seen.
In the before Mr. Krisel, Commissioner, Messrs, Watson & Ca sued Mr, Crawley, of the Velvet ce Creara €o,, for "Tis, 650, the rent due for the and August this Anurton represented the defend and Mr. J.B. Davies appeared 09 Dehalf of the' plaintiff.
The defendant admitted the money was owing but claimed a. set-of. He had not paid the money because, owing to the leaking of the roof of restaurant, at 16 Nanking Read, he had been unable to use the back part of his premises. He had asked his Inndiord to repair the: root but this had not been done, fand in consequence, beside losing: business, the walls of the room were spoilt, and much of the furni. ture. 'This trouble, the defendant held, had been going on since February, 1927, and, owing to. it, three' caterers had broken thei contracts, saying that it was im possible to work there, During July. and August he reckoned that he had Jost Tis, 200 a month, through not being able to use his back room, and from February 1927, about Tis, 2,500.
Cross-examined by Mr. wies, Mr. Crawley admitted that had also written to the Jandlor con-smell from the drains one of hi letters to the Tandtords had said "that it was owing to this that he had been unable to use the back room.
The question of set-off or coun-fter-claim was then discussed and the case was adjourned for further hearing next Monday.
Three male and one female Chinese were arrested in the police drag net, and in aiklition to the LB.C, notes 800 others of the same denomination supposedly drawn on the Bank of China were also found. The whole et were discovered in a tin box between the ceiling boars.
Tt transpired that one of the accused, Ching Duu-sung, was recently released from yad where he had been sentenced for three niler charge ing forged notes. Apparently. als one of the females had a husband The police are of the opinion that the notes offered as evidence are part ofa much larger cache that originally belonged to the old gang and are at present being work: ced off wherever possible, The Court! reserved judgment.
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