In Rue de l'Administration, within a stone's throw of the French Central Police Station, a daring burglary, it is reported, on conveyed to the authorities about midnight by an opium merchant, whose story was that a gang of Cantonese, armed with revolvers, had broken into his house, overpowered the inhabitants, and carried off a safe. The contents of the safe, he stated, amounted to $14,500, all of which had been lost. The police attention on the street
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