Te was not the custom in Japan to ask for receipts from friends and hho considered defendant a close friend and, therefore, had nove asked for an accounting of the money. Neither had he kept a record of the amounts he lent at various times.
The club was not formed for the promotion of financial schemes, but mainly as a means of furthering social intercourse between Japanese. and Chinese officials in Peking, Witness denied that the Yen, (000 was spent as "ground bait" that he hoped! to got it back throug the schemes he would promote in the club, Ho didn't expect any profits and he never asked defendant Where the money went.
He was not to play a leading part fu the club and on the advice of defendant he was to stay in the background as defendant had told him that as Feng Vu-hsiang was la feontrol of Peking at that time it would not look good for a Japanese to be the public head of the club, On December 28, plaintiff occupied the witness box during the whole of the hearing and was questioned by Mr, MeDonald, stated that one of his payments to defendant amounted te $4,000 and the money passed in defendant's bedroom ina hotel in Peking. It was furnished defendant to secure certain rights te operate an omnibus line in Peking: and was handed over as a "social gesture." Tt was not in the nature of a business proposition, "He asked for the money and T gave it to him."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.