Shanghai, July 15.
Mr. H.C. Davis. Briton and former employee of the Shanghai Gas Ca. who. is alleged to. have been involved in the embezzlement of $33, 13 from his employers, arrived in Shanghai yesterday in the Dairen Maru in the custody of Inspector Nakamura of the SMP. Davis was located in Dairen by police authorities of that port several days ago. He is expected to appear in IL. court this morning to face prelimin [charges in connection with the alleged embezzlement. Tong Ong-liang, former Chinese employee of the Shanghai Gas Ca. charged with being an accomplice in the embezzlement, Was acquitted by the First Special District Court earlier this month Japanese to Control Match Factories shanghai, July 13, facturing factories in Shanda ake Twenty two Chinese match manu-
reported. to be forming a syndicate Under the Japanese control and the Syndicate. is expected to be. me Sugurated in the next few days. The Shanghai syndicate will merely tea branch of the "Wallonal Joint Smee or Match" Manufacturers" Which is said to have been estabish-
The Shanghai branch office, the reports state, Is in the Development Bank. Bulléing. Stochuen Rone where Japanese and Chinese mer-Chants were discussing the project a meeting held on July 11, Bach Chinese factory is represented—in the syndicate' by one or several persons, The 22 participating factories are to be not much different from Japanese firms because, it is alleged, most of them have been taken over by the Japanese and forced to resume operations atter the hostilities around here.
It is predicted that the whole of the Chinese match industry will be completely controlled by the Japanese 85 a, measure of "economic aggression," but it is stated that at present there are still many Chinese' match factories which have refused to cooperate with the Japanese, It fs recalled that before the hostilities Chinese and Japanese merchants discussed the joint business office plan as a result of which a joint once was actually established in Shanghai by Chinese and Japanese match manufacturers. The existence of this office was, however, a short-lived one. As the hostilities "went fon another Joint business office was eventually established in" Tientsin under the Japanese supervision.
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