'Shanghai, Oct. 20, Charged with embezzling $33,752.83 connivance with a foreign colleague, Tai _Oong-liang, former shroff of the Shanghai Gas Company has been Jsenteneed to six months' imprison ment by the Second Kiangsu High Court as a result of an appeal fled Joy the Settlement police against, the Jdecision of the First Special District [Court which found him not guilty when he was first charged in the lower court.
'The high court passed the sentence Jon the strength of evidence obtained fin the trial by the British court of C. Davies, foreign ledger clerk of the company, who was sentenced also a prison term, Afler many years' Jeonneetion with the company: Davies iwas told by his employers that his Jserviees were not wanted any more fand that a younger man could take his place at a lower salary.
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