Shanghai, May 9.
Convicted of having mimppropriated ten radio sets from a_number of foreigners, Alexander Charles Williams, a Ressian who recently] surrendered himself to the police received a suspended sentence of] eight months' imprisonment yesterday in the First Special Distrit Court, He was given the radio sets for repair or sale but the accused hiad either sold. them to' unknown, persons or had pawned them. The] Machines in all were said to be worth less than $3,000, Four of them have been recovered, Second Special Court Telephone Dispute Shanghai, May 1.
As the demand for telephones in Shanghai is exceeding the supply so much that people are paying big sums of money to private individuals for possessing that public utility, interesting test case. in which two Chinese fought for the right to use fa telephone was referred to the Second Special District Court yesterday., Judge Chen tried mediation. but as his efforts in that respect failed. he "ruled that a format petition be fled by the complainant.
'The plaintiff, Vu Cheng-lung. is a landlord who lives at House No. 3 Lane 339 Rue Bourgeat. His petition to the court says thal two years. ago the defendant. Ling Hsiang-cheng. rented the third oer of his house and had a' telephone installed He later moved out and, " before moving away, he. transferred the telephone to the plaintiff who, it is stated. paid the necessary deposit fee of $15 and $10 installation fee. Since then, the plaintiff has been ying the monthly rate to the lephone company.
Int Is alleged that in order to obtain some extra money for' sur~ Fendering the right, the defendant wrote to the telephomre company. advising the latter to remove. the telephone number. The plaintiff har Protested "to the company and deemed it necessary to refer the dispute to the court so that it may: be finally decided who will have the right to use the telephone number 77886
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