Kiangsu High Court on a charge of signing an allegedly illegal agreement with the China Realty Company for a Joan of $30,000,000 on behalf of the China Merchants Steamship Naviga-ton Ca. He was sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment and was ordered to pay 750,000, but appealed against the sentence and in April 1935, the sentence was reduced to fourteen months' imprisonment and An inquest on his body is to be held at the public mortuary on Kiaochow Road, this morning and no arrangements have as yet been made ier the funeral The deceased had very many friends in the foreign and Chinese communities in Shanghai.
From Chinese sources it was learned last night, that some time ago, the Jepanese authorities had offered the Marquis a ministerial post in the new "Nanking Government" but that this offer was rejected. About three weeks ego, it was rumoured that Marquis Li was to be appointed Superintendent of the Chinese Maritime Customs, but so far, there are not the slightest indications to the effect that the deceased was about to take up this post.
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