Cotton Mill Manager Faces Court!
Charges of being concerned in extensive thefts of electricity from the Water and Electricity Company of the French Concession were specified by the French Police in the Se fond Special District Court on Tuesday, (Sept. 4) against three Chinese, two of whom were respectively the manager fand assistant manager of the Ching Foong Cotton Mill, 162 Route Pere Dugo, and the third was former me-charlie of the complainant company.
According to the prosecution, _the theft of power by the. defendant mill started three years ago, but it was discovered only after a." special metre had been installed at the mill.
Tt was alleged that from August 2 to August 28 this year, the accused paid for 6,683 kilowatts of electricity, but actually the mill used no tess than 25,968 kilowatts of electricity during that period. As a. result, it was alleged, the complainant company suffered the monthly. loss of about $1,100 and during the fast three years, approximately $50,000, The: third accused gave his name fas Chang Er-lurly and admitted the charge. He told the Court that Yao) Sze-zeng, the manager of the mill, had instructed "him to do so and! that he had received monthly." remus noration from the mill since the theft started, cdhygemand was ordered by the
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