Case Against Mrs. K. de Salas 'The case against Mrs, Katherine HDe Salas on charges of Inrceny by trick will be heard before Judge Milton J. Helmick in the U.S. Court for China on March 29, the date being set at the Court on' March 17.
Mrs. De Salas, who was asked (0 return from Japan recently together with Mr. Arthur" Peterson, Deputy Marshal, was said to have obtained cods from local shops before her departure from Shanghai by issuing cheques " which were returned marked "insufficient funds" on presentation at the bank.
Altogether eighteen complaints have been led against her, according to Mr. Leighton Shields, the District Attorney. over, and Dr. A. Richer resolved 10 protest against. this increase, which he considers unlawful. "He refused to ay his rent and requested his land= lords, the Fonelére. et Immobilitre de Chine to sue him in the ecu request which was granted. On Mar. 21 he pleaded that: The increase in rentals greatly surpasses the amount of the surtax and hence is contrary to the consular order of December 1937. (2) That such an increase unethical in the conditions prevailing the present. time.
Maitre Barraud, representing the plaintiffs, replied that: (1) The de= fendant nas paid the tax directly to the Council, and not to the company, which never named the surtax as the Feason for the increase of rentals.
That the Increase in question. was due (0 reasons which were not specified as unlawful in the Consular order of December 1997, and hence didn't contravene the said order.
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