Japanese fo Tour China To See Conditions Charged with fraud, Wong Ah-lin, chauffeur employed by the sixth son of the late Mr. Yuan Shih-kai, late first President of the Chinese Republic, was sentenced to one year and six months' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court together with his accomplice who drew eight months. A third man was declared not guilty.
The accused chauffeur recently went to see another chauffeur employed bya Mr. Ti living at the next house to the Yuan family at 8-108 Route Vallon stating that his master wanted to sell his Ford V8. The other chauffeur was asked to persuade Mr. Ti to buy the car.
The deal was agreed io, and accordingly Mr. Ti's son handed $3,500 to Wong in a lane of Moulmein Road. The accused told the prospective buyer to get the car on Seymour Road where he said it was parked: Upon. reaching the place, the accused chauffeur suddenly denied having received the price money. Their quarrel was later referred to the police who arrested the second accused in whose possession $3,300 was found.
was revealed in court that Wong's master did not know anything about the fake deal and that after receiving the price money he passed it on to the second accused trying to swindle his prospective buyer later, Dr. Susumu Matsumura, an outstanding Japanese expert in public hygiene who was recently appointed director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Asia Development Board, the Japanese Government's "China Office," arrived in Shanghai on Sunday on his first tour of inspection since assuming his new post. Dr. Matsumura is also regarded as an authority on Chinese While in Shanghai Dr. Matsumur: plans to see the Shanghai Science Institute, Tung Wen College, th Modern Science Library of Japan, the Japanese Language School, the local organization of the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare, epidemic prevention work in Central China, the quarantine system of the Maritime Customs, and other social works, the "tairiku Shimpo" ported yesterday.
Remarking that he made his first visit to Shanghai in March, 1928, Dr. Matsumura noted that, "as cultural work in Central China is getting under way in real earnest, I hope to make a full inspection of it as a basis for my future work," the paper said.
Included in Dr. Matsumura's itinerary are Hangchow, Soochow, Nanking, Hankow, Tsinan, and also Peiping He plans to return to Japan by Empire Day, February 11, the paper said.
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