Judge Confiscates $100 in Silver Loong Sai, a hawker, found in possession of' 100 silver dollars at a Yangtszepoo Road wharf, near Chit wangtao Road, by Wayside Police Station detectives one week ago, and who Was taken to the station when could not satisfactorily explal what he was going to do with the silver, was told by Judge Hsiao Hal-feng in the First Special District Court on Monday, Nov. 18, that the shiver found inches possession wastto be confiscated, Loong was the first man have his silver confiscated by the Teeal Chinese court since the Finance Ministry announced its decree for the nationalization of the white metal.
Tt was frst suspected that Loong wes one of those smugglers who tried to make profits by selling silver dollars for banknotes as reports wei current that some persons were willing to offer from $1.20 to $1.40 in notes for each silver dollar. Loong told the police, however, that he had pulled q sack containing the 100 silver dollars from the Whangpoo River that day after seeing that the sack had been thrown into the water from a ship alongside the wharf. The hawker further said that the man who had thrown the sack into the water must be the smuggler, but he was nol.
In view of the hawker's statements which he insisted were true, Judge Hsiao imposed a fine of $15 on him on the charge of being found in recession of another's property.
Receipt for Half Monthly Rent case wag brought by the Shanghai Municipal Counil's Revenue Department in the First Special District Court on Tuesday, Nov. 19. against two Chinese landlords charged With assisting their tenants in defrauding the Council of a sum of money by issuing to the tenant rent Feceipt for only half of the actual amount in order to cause the Council to collect only half of the tax.
The two defendants wore Kong Pau-yoong and Kong Mong-wah, Sing Bath: No. 21, Lane No. 429, Only the second defendant appeared yesterday fand the hearing was adjourned il! next Saturday morning.
According to the prosecution, the owner of the Vu Jih Sing Bath-house used (0 pay hig landlords a monthly Fent of $300, From March 1 to July 1 this year, the landlords issued to the balli-house owner rent receipt! for only $150 a month and, asa result, the Council lost $336 in tax during that period.
The charge was denied by the defendant in court, wae contended that the tenant, named Zau. King-pao, after his repeated request for a rent reduction had been re~ Jected, approached the landlords with suggestion that he be allowed to pay his rent half-monthly as he was luuable to pay it in a lump sum due to business depression. Accordingly, when the rent for half a month. Ramely, $180, was paid, a receipt for that amount was'given the tenant, ut, the defendant said, he had ud knowledge that the tenant had paid the municipal tax on basis of "the half-monthly rent receipt.
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