The Archive · 1939

SMP, v. JAUN cnAY AND

uss ¢, DARROCIE

Before Mr, C, H. Haines, H.M. Registrar (Fine and a caution)

Shanghai, Sept. 33.

'Mr. John Gray, was' fined two shillings by Mr. H. C, Haines, Registrar, in HM, Police Court yesterday being found guilty of having parked his car more than four inches from the Small Note Forger Shanghai, Sept. 13.

Charged with forging a cashable document, "Huang "Hung-chuan, a cigarette stand proprietor in Hong-ow, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment yesterday by the First 'Special District Court. "He was found by the court to have circulated many counterfeit cent notes purporting to have been issued by some fish hongs in Chemulpo Road' in Liew of small money, of which Shanghai is suffer~ ing acute shortage. He printed more than 10,000 private cent notes of one and two cent denominations, and it was believed by the court that he had circulated many of them to his own advantage. As the official cent notes have not yet been circulated here, several other similar cases have been referred to the police and court.

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