Attempts to Get Money For Installations Nine men, some of whom are employees of the Shanghai Telephone Company, were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday on the suspicion that they had defrauded the company by contracting the improper transfer and tion of a telephone in order to obtain extra money to their own advantage. They were remanded in custody for a week pending further investigations.
The case is an outgrowth of the shortage of telephones or rather the abnormal increase of population in Shanghai. Some time ago, a telephone company employee was given a suspended sentence because he was promised by a dispensary manager for the installation of a telephone, suggesting that a racket was developing. Numerous. people have made' requests for telephones, but they have to wait.
This time a Chinese shop in Moulmein Road, which recently moved to another address, also wanted to have its telephone moved. Some one asked for $200 and the money was io have been paid yesterday. The Central police got wind of what was going to happen and when the company's employee showed up to obtain ihe money he was trapped by the officers, Through his alleged confession, the other accused were later arrested. hoped that all British subjects able to do so, and not already in the Corps, would join in order to bring the contingents up to their usual strength.
A letter was read from the British United Services Association stating the steps they were taking in connection with recruiting for home service.
A formal resolution was unanimously adopted adding the name of the Indian Merchants' Association to the list of societies and associations entitled to nominate a member to the General Committee of the B.R.A.
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