Two Hundred Arrested in Raid of Chinatown: a Plea of Ignorance Bexlin, May 24.
Two hundred' members of the Berlin Chinese colony were haled into court yesterday as the result of a raid of Chinatown in search fof smuggled goods. The court hearing developed the fact that most of the goods in question were smuggled by way of the occupied area, where the central is not so effective as elsewhere.
Dr. Hoo Chi-tsai, secretary of the Chinese Legation, appearing as interpreter, pleaded that his countrymen were unacquainted with the complicated German import laws and suggested the payment of a lump sum as a fine. The court, declined to accept this solution and will issue individual indietrents—
Reuter.
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