The Foo Loo Zoo Restaurant, ponulor Chinese restantrant at 691 Nonkine Rood, was sued by its landlord. the ist Special Court on Monday, Des. 23, for the rocove-y of over. $9,000. the total amount of ten months" house rent due to the plalntits, The detendat shoo reduction (or one-third, namely, that monthly rent be reduced from over $900 to 2 little over $600. the reasons given being that business was bad and other landlords had given similar reductions to their tenants.
The plaintiff declared that the fact that other landlords had given rent reductions to their tenants could not rove that the value of land had [depreciated and that the fact that the defendant had paid several months' rent at the original rate after thelt Tease contract had expired showed that they were willing to occupy their, premises at the original rant rate.
Judgment was reserved.
Sentence on Mr, Lu Suspended A sentence of eighteen months' im-Jprisonment, suspended for two years, iwas passed by Judge Tsien in the Firs Special District Court on Tues day, Dee. 24, upon Lu Sau-dong, once 8 wealthy real atate broker, who was charged by police with misaporopriating fast year $230,000 belonging {0 the Commercial Bank of China. was the manager of the Sochow Branch of the Commercial Bank of China and the owner of the Kwel Hsing Real Estate Company, 207. Tientsin Road. "The $239,000, ull notes, were set aside by the Bank for its Soochow Branch and were handed to Lu at the Kwei Hsing Real Estate Ca, Instead of bringing the amount to Soochow, Lu, it wae, al-loged, unlawfully appropriated it 10 hig. own uso, Repeated demands for the return of the money having proved fruitless the Read oMfico of the Tank filed a complaint with the SIN. Police who applied to the Chinese court for warrants for the arrest of both Lu and his son, Lu Ping-san, the latter being the sistant manager of the Soochow Branch and, therefore, suspected of being concerned in the alleged misappropriations.
Lu's son was arrested and received similar sentence as his father after D being charged by the police. 'The sentence upon the son was, however, not suspended and an appeal was, led against the decision, The appeal was stil pending in the High Court. 'Lu himself was not located by police until Fast week' when he surprised the police by surrendering himself at the Central Police Station, He de-he had made good the loss:
ined by the complainant bunk.
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