One of the largest waterfront fires im Shanghai in many months caused heavy damage to the former China Merchants No, 7 godown on the 9 and morning of Oct. 10. Above firemen battling the flames shortly ins Harbour Fire Brigat jo also went to the Fraud Alleged in River Boom Salvage Case Shanghai, Oct, 17.
Echoes of last year's ' hostilities are to be found in a case of alleged fraud to be brought before the First [Special District Court today. 'Two Chinese, King Ngo-ming and' King Tsung, uncle and nephew, were arrested over the week-end by Detective Sub-Inspector P. T. Konovaloff on the complaint of Mr.
Chang, manager of the Nan Fong Welding Company, 137 Rue Marco Polo.
Before the hostilities the company operated a steam-launch, "Nan No. 1." and a motor-launch, Fong No. 2," on board which welding, was performed in various parts of the Shanghai harbour. Theie vessels, berthed at Tungkadoo, Nantao, were taken by the Chinese authorities and sunk in the Whangpoo River as part of the boom established there last August.
In. May of this year Mr. Chang asked the elder King to help him get the launches salvaged, and subsequently a ¢ontract was signed with a firm known as "Kawa Yoko Company," the salvage fee to be $5,000, The ownership papers were handed over in July to facilitate the proceedings, Mr. Chang said.
'Some ten' days later, however, Mir. Chang learned that the two launches, valued together at $22,000 had been raised and then sold, on the strength of the ownership papers, to the NKK. Company, and that Kawa Yoko & Company was not a Japanese firm but was conducted entirely by Chinese, It is further alleged that King Ngo-ming and his nephew also received a total of $1,280 from the Nan Fong Welding Company in advances.
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