The clauses relating to the prohibition of marriage comprise above all restrictive regulations embodied in the so-called law for the maintenance of racial purity and the heredity law which forbid marriage between persons of different race and those who for physical or social reasons are unfit for marriage. Some of these restrictions will not become effective The witness further denied that as the result of the sale of some shares which he possessed he would invest money in the venture discussed by them.
Danenberg then went on to say that during a visit by the complainant to the Yangtze Hotel Ballroom he ran up a bill for $19 which he asked Danenberg to sign, This the witness denied.
Asked by Danenberg whether he recalled a visit made by himself, Mr. Fagan, Mr, Liang, and Mr, Adams to the Park Hotel when Mr, Adams took them out to luncheon at a Chinese restaurant, the witness replied that this was two weeks after his arrival in Shanghai, He remembered going out to dinner at the Chinese restaurant.
Mr. Haines then queried the word dinner as Danenberg had used the word luncheon, and, in reply Danenberg stated. that, probably, the complainant was thinking of the custom in England to have dinner at midday.
Mr. Haines—What have all these questions to do with the case? It's a sheer waste of time. I'm not going to listen to any more of this nonsense about negotiations for buying ca-berets.
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