Former General Manager Given One Month's Grace Marquis Li Kuo-chih, former general manager of the China Merchants 'Steam Navigation Ca,, who was ordered by the Supreme' Court to return the Tls. 700,000 commission to the firm, was given another month's grace make an initial payment of ten per cent. of -the total sum, 'Marquis Li, who was charged several other' officials of the firm with snisappropriation, was bailed out. by Mr, Vu Ya-ching and Mr. Li Shih-hou so as to enable him to arrange the payment of the money as ordered by the Supreme Court. The defendant told the court during the trial that the money went to a Nanking supervisor of the firm.
Mr, Eugene Y. B. Kiang, who appeared with Marquis Li in the Nantao District Court, told the judge of his client's inability to pay the ten per cent. owing to financial diMiculty. Hence the judge extended the period for another month,
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